Overview
Show
Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Late Teen, Young Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 3, Scene 1
Time & Place
The monologue occurs in the lush gardens of the Oak Hall country estate during the early morning hours of 1841.
Length
Short
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Context
Grace Harkaway, an idealistic and honest
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I love to watch the first tear that glistens in the opening eye of morning, the silent song the flowers breathe, the thrilly choir of the woodland minstrels, to which the modest brook trickles applause; - these, swelling out the sweetest chord of sweet creation's matins, seem to pour some soft and merry tale into the daylight's ear, as if the waking world had dreamed a happy thing, and now smiled o'er the telling of it.
Performance Tips
- Connect deeply with the sensory and poetic
Emotional Beat Breakdown
1. Awakening Nature
- What shifts: The
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