Monologue

Shepherd Monologue from The Winter's Tale

From The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

male · anguished · 52 sec

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I cannot speak, nor think, Nor dare to know that which I know. O sir, You have undone a man of fourscore three, That thought to fill his grave in quiet; yea, To die upon the bed my father died, To lie close by his honest bones; but now Some hangman must put on my shroud and lay me Where no priest shovels in dust. O cursed wretch, That knew’st this was the prince, and wouldst adventure To mingle faith with him! Undone, undone! If I might die within this hour, I have liv’d To die when I desire. (Exit.)

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The Shepherd expresses his profound grief and despair over the loss of his peaceful life and the revelation of a tragic truth about the prince, feeling undone and cursed by fate.

60 and up · despair · death · betrayal · isolation · fate

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