The King Monologue from Such is Life: A Play in Five Acts

From Such is Life: A Play in Five Acts by Frank Wedekind

male · anguished · 1:08 min

"Let him who can live without work starve." What old saws this vermin cherished to endure his miserable existence! And I?----I cannot even feed my child! A lordship was given me by Heaven such as only one in a million can have! And I cannot even give my child food!----My kind father made every hour of the day a festival for me by means of joyous companions, by the wisest, teachers, by a host of devoted servants, and my child must shiver with cold and sleep under the hedges by the highway! Have pity on her, O God, and blot her love for miserable me out of her heart! Let happen to me then whatever will, I will bear it lightly! (ALMA: Father! Jesu Maria! My father! Help!) ((Clasping her in his arms.)) What is it, child? (A VAGABOND: Ah!--How could I know another had her!) ((Rushes upon him with uplifted stick.)) Hence, you dirty dog!

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