Monologue Overview
Show
Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Three, Scene One
Time & Place
Westminster Palace, 1400s
Length
Medium
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
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Context
King Henry can’t sleep--the rest of the kingdom
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How many thousand of my poorest subjects
Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
Why rather,
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