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OSCAR: it’s true. I am trapped in the na...

Oscar Wilde

The Judas Kiss

David Hare

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 1
Time & Place
Cadogan Hotel, London, England 1895
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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OSCAR: it’s true. I am trapped in the narrative. The narrative now has a life of its own. It travels inexorably towards my disgrace. Towards my final expulsion. And it bears me along on its crest...

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And at the end of the seriousness, the weightness, the sorrow, the judicious weighing of things in the scales - have you really not noticed? - the decisions they make lead only one way. This is England. There is always a hanging! And this time it’s decided: The noose has been fitted and the neck is my own!

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: David Hare, The Judas Kiss, Concord Theatricals, 1998, pp 33 -34.

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