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A Woman Killed with Kindness

Overview

Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Scene 1
Time & Place
The monologue is delivered during a wedding celebration feast at John Frankford's country home in Yorkshire, England, in the early seventeenth century.
Length
Short
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

Context

Text

Master Frankford,
You are a happy man, Sir, and much joy
Succeed your marriage mirth: you have a wife
So qualified, and wit such ornaments
Both of the mind and body. First, her birth
Is noble, and her education such
As might become the daughter of a prince;
Her own tongue speaks all tongues, and her own hand
Can teach all strings to speak in their grace,
From the shrill'st treble to the hoarsest base.
To end her many praises in one word,
She's Beauty and Perfection's eldest daughter,
Only found by yours, though many a heart hath sought her.

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A Woman Killed with Kindness]

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