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Henry IV Part 2

Captain! thou abominable damned cheater,...

Overview

Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act Two, Scene Four
Time & Place
A bustling private room in the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap, London, during a late night in the early 1400s.
Length
Short
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

Context

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Captain! thou abominable damned cheater, art thou not ashamed to be called captain? An captains were of my mind, they would truncheon you out, for taking their names upon you before you have earned them. You a captain! you slave, for what? for tearing a poor whore's ruff in a bawdy-house? He a captain! hang him, rogue! he lives upon mouldy stewed prunes and dried cakes. A captain! God's light, these villains will make the word as odious as the word 'occupy;' which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted: therefore captains had need look to 't.

William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part Two, http://shakespeare.mit.edu/2henryiv/2henryiv.2.4.html

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