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Start: Oh, you think so, do you? You th...

Mortimer Brewster

Arsenic and Old Lace

Joseph Kesselring

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act Three, Scene One
Time & Place
Brooklyn, Victorian House, 1940
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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Oh, you think so, do you? You think people in plays act intelligently. I wish you had to sit through some of the one I have to sit through.

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End:

No, he stays there. Now I ask you, Doctor, is that what an intelligent person would do?

For the full extended monologue, refer to Joseph Kesselring, Arsenic and Old Lace. Dramatists Play Service, 1969. pp. 74-75.

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