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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