Monologue

Touchstone Monologue from As You Like It

From As You Like It by William Shakespeare

male · defiant · 56 sec

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He, sir, that must marry this woman. Therefore, you clown, abandon—which is in the vulgar, “leave”—the society—which in the boorish is “company”—of this female—which in the common is “woman”; which together is, abandon the society of this female, or, clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better understanding, diest; or, to wit, I kill thee, make thee away, translate thy life into death, thy liberty into bondage. I will deal in poison with thee, or in bastinado, or in steel. I will bandy with thee in faction; will o’errun thee with policy. I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways! Therefore tremble and depart.

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Touchstone confronts a clown, expressing his frustration and threatening violence if the clown does not abandon the company of a woman he intends to marry.

20s · anger · power · violence · identity · threat

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