Monologue

Simonides Monologue from Pericles

From Pericles by William Shakespeare

male · defiant · 1:05 min

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Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory? (Aside.) I am glad on’t with all my heart.— I’ll tame you; I’ll bring you in subjection. Will you, not having my consent, Bestow your love and your affections Upon a stranger? (Aside.) Who, for aught I know May be, nor can I think the contrary, As great in blood as I myself.— Therefore hear you, mistress; either frame Your will to mine, and you, sir, hear you, Either be ruled by me, or I will make you— Man and wife. Nay, come, your hands, And lips must seal it too: and being join’d, I’ll thus your hopes destroy; and for further grief, God give you joy! What, are you both pleased?

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Simonides confronts a mistress about her affections for a stranger, asserting his authority and demanding her compliance in a forceful manner.

30s · anger · power · love · control · identity

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