Monologue Overview
Show
Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene Two
Time & Place
London, England, 1400s, palace
Length
Medium
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
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Context
The Prince of Wales, better known as Prince Hal,
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PRINCE HAL
I know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyoked humour of your idleness:
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That, when he
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