Monologue

Maria Monologue from Twelfth Night

From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

female · sarcastic · 1:12 min

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If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourselves into stitches, follow me. Yond gull Malvolio is turned heathen, a very renegado; for there is no Christian that means to be saved by believing rightly can ever believe such impossible passages of grossness. He’s in yellow stockings. (SIR TOBY: And cross-gartered?) Most villainously; like a pedant that keeps a school i’ th’ church. I have dogged him like his murderer. He does obey every point of the letter that I dropped to betray him. He does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies. You have not seen such a thing as ’tis. I can hardly forbear hurling things at him. I know my lady will strike him. If she do, he’ll smile and take’t for a great favour.

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Maria expresses her frustration and amusement at the foolishness of Malvolio, plotting to expose him while anticipating her lady's reaction.

20s · anger · betrayal · revenge · power · identity

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