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If cussin’ me does ye good, cuss all ye’...

Abbie Putnam Cabot

Desire Under the Elms

Eugene O'Neill

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene Four
Time & Place
The Cabot Farmhouse, sunset. New England, 1850.
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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If cussin’ me does ye good, cuss all ye’ve a mind t’. I’m all prepared t’ have ye agin me-- at fust. I’d feel the same at any stranger comin’ t’ take my Maw’s place. Yew must’ve cared a lot fur yewr Ma, didn’t ye? My Maw died afore I’d growed.

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...an’ I was glad sayin’ now I’m free fur once, on’y I diskivered all I was free fur was t’ wuk agen in other folks’ hums, doin’ other folks’ wuk till I’d most give up hope o’ ever doin’ my own wuk in my own hum, an’ then your Paw come…

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: O’Neill, Eugene, Eugene O’Neill: Three Plays, Vintage International, 1995, pp. 23-24.

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