Monologue Overview
Show
Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1 Scene 1
Time & Place
Epheus, sixteenth-century
Length
Long
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
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Context
The elderly merchant, Egeon, has come to Epheus
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A heavier task could not have been imposed
Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable:
Yet, that the world may witness that my end
Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence,
I'll utter what my sorrows give me leave.
In Syracusa was I
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