Monologue Overview
Show
Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
1
Time & Place
A hill near Athens
Length
Medium
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
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In this opening monologue of the play,
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What cares have not gnawed at my heart and how few have been the pleasures in my life! Four, to be exact, while my troubles have been as countless as the grains of sand on the shore! Let me see! of what value to me have been these few pleasures?
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