Monologue

Pandarus Monologue from Troilus and Cressida

From Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare

male · comedic · 1:15 min

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Come, come, what need you blush? Shame’s a baby. Here she is now; swear the oaths now to her that you have sworn to me.—What, are you gone again? You must be watch’d ere you be made tame, must you? Come your ways, come your ways; and you draw backward, we’ll put you i’ th’ fills. Why do you not speak to her? Come, draw this curtain and let’s see your picture. Alas the day, how loath you are to offend daylight! And ’twere dark, you’d close sooner. So, so; rub on, and kiss the mistress. How now, a kiss in fee-farm! Build there, carpenter; the air is sweet. Nay, you shall fight your hearts out ere I part you. The falcon as the tercel, for all the ducks i’ th’ river. Go to, go to.

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Pandarus is playfully urging the hesitant lovers to express their feelings for each other, using humor and light-hearted banter to break the tension.

40s · joy · love · desire · identity · playfulness

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