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Leontes Monologue from The Winter's Tale

From The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

male · defiant · 53 sec

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You have mistook, my lady, Polixenes for Leontes. O thou thing, Which I’ll not call a creature of thy place, Lest barbarism, making me the precedent, Should a like language use to all degrees, And mannerly distinguishment leave out Betwixt the prince and beggar. I have said She’s an adultress; I have said with whom: More, she’s a traitor, and Camillo is A federary with her; and one that knows What she should shame to know herself But with her most vile principal, that she’s A bed-swerver, even as bad as those That vulgars give bold’st titles; ay, and privy To this their late escape.

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Leontes confronts his wife about her alleged infidelity, expressing his intense emotions and accusations against her and her supposed accomplice.

30s · anger · betrayal · jealousy · power · identity

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