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Blue Stockings

START: Listen! I was at school at five....

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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 2, Scene 6
Time & Place
Girton College, University of Cambridge, England, 1896
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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START: Listen! I was at school at five. At seven I knew Plato. At twelve, hand me a cadaver and I’d tell you the name of every last nerve in it.

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END: And you won’t be wives. Why would you do that? No normal woman would want that. Cos you know no man’ll ever have you. You’re a joke. All of you. A joke! Ha, a doctor, for God’s sake!

Jessica Swale, Blue Stockings, NHB Modern Plays, e-book edition, 2013, pp.115-117.

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