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  • A Monologue from the play "Richard II" by William Shakespeare
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Character Henry Bolingbroke
Gender Male
Age Range(s) Young Adult (20-35), Adult (36-50)
Type of monologue / Character is Angry, Scolding, Reminiscing life story/Telling a story
Type Dramatic
Period Renaissance
Genre Historical, Drama
Description Henry Bolingbroke accuses Thomas Mowbray of being a traitor
Location ACT I, Scene 1

Summary

The play is about the fall from power and death of Richard II and the rise of the first king of the house of Lancaster, Henry Bolingbroke, who will become Henry IV.
In the first scene we find Richard II acting as a judge for a dispute between Henry Bolingbroke, the king's cousin and son of John of Gaunt, and Thomas Mowbray, the Duke of Norfolk.
In this monologue, in ACT I, Scene 1, Henry Bolingbroke accuses Mowbray of having squandered the king's money, of having conspired against him and of having killed the Duke of Gloucester.

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Excerpt
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Look, what I speak, my life shall prove it true;
That Mowbray hath received eight thousand nobles
In name of lendings for your highness' soldiers,
The which he hath detain'd for lewd employments,
Like a false traitor and injurious villain.
Besides I say and will in battle prove,
Or here or elsewhere to the furthest verge
That ever was survey'd by English eye,
That all the treasons for these eighteen years
Complotted and contrived in this land
Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.
Further I say and further will maintain
Upon his bad life to make all this good,
That he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death,
Suggest his soon-believing adversaries,
And consequently, like a traitor coward,
Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood:
Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries,
Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth,
To me for justice and rough chastisement;
And, by the glorious worth of my descent,
This arm shall do it, or this life be spent.

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