Overview
Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 5
Time & Place
The monologue takes place inside the Hardcastle country estate, which Marlow mistakes for an inn, in rural England during the 1770s.
Length
Short
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Context
Marlow is speaking passionately to Kate
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By heavens, madam! fortune was ever my smallest consideration. Your beauty at first caught my eye; for who could see that without emotion? But every moment that I converse with you steals in some new grace, heightens the picture, and gives it stronger expression. What at first seemed rustic plainness, now appears refined simplicity. What seemed forward assurance, now strikes me as the result of courageous innocence and conscious virtue.
Performance Tips
- Channel a breakthrough of nervous energy into a
Emotional Beat Breakdown
1. Stripping the Material World
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