I should have been a painter. But thanks...
Monologue Overview
                            Character
                        
                        
                    
                            Gender
                        
                        
                            Male
                        
                    
                                Playing Age
                            
                            
                                Mature Adult, Elderly
                            
                        
                                Style
                            
                            
                                Dramatic
                            
                        
                                Act/Scene
                            
                            
                                Act One
                            
                        
                                Time & Place
                            
                            
                                Rolfe's poorly furnished room in exile in Venice in 1923
                            
                        
                                Length
                            
                            
                                Long
                            
                        
                                Time Period
                            
                            
                                Contemporary
                            
                        
                            Show Type
                        
                        
                            Play
                        
                    
                            Age Guidance
                        
                        
                            Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
                        
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Context
Rolfe is alone in his room, talking to his unseen
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I should have been a painter. But thanks to that damned Beauclerk, I lost all my apparatus and was reduced to a state of penury. I turned to writing –-a loathsome occupation-– because literature was the only outlet which Catholicks left me. And
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