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  • A Monologue from the play "Henry IV Part 2" by William Shakespeare
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Character Rumour
Gender Male
Age Range(s) Teenager (13-19), Young Adult (20-35), Adult (36-50), Senior (>50)
Type of monologue / Character is Descriptive, Introduction to story, Talking to the audience, Reminiscing life story/Telling a story
Type Dramatic
Period Renaissance
Genre Historical
Description Induction by Rumour

Summary

This is the prologue of the play, delivered by Rumour. Rumour tells us who it is and what it does, that is it carries gossip all over the world, most of it false. One example is the defeat of the Earl of Northumberland and his son Hotspur, that have been defeated by King Henry IV at the battle of Shewsbury. Rumour has spread false news across England and abroad that is King Henry has been defeated by the rebel army led by Hotspur.

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Excerpt
RUMOUR
Open your ears; for which of you will stop
The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?
I, from the orient to the drooping west,
Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold
The acts commenced on this ball of earth:
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
I speak of peace, while covert enmity
Under the smile of safety wounds the world:
And who but Rumour, who but only I,
Make fearful musters and prepared defence,
Whiles the big year, swoln with some other grief,
Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war,
And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures
And of so easy and so plain a stop
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still-discordant wavering multitude,
Can play upon it. But what need I thus
My well-known body to anatomize
Among my household? Why is Rumour here?
I run before King Harry's victory;
Who in a bloody field by Shrewsbury
Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops,
Quenching the flame of bold rebellion
Even with the rebel's blood. But what mean I
To speak so true at first? my office is
To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell
Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword,
And that the king before the Douglas' rage
Stoop'd his anointed head as low as death.
This have I rumour'd through the peasant towns
Between that royal field of Shrewsbury
And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone,
Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland,
Lies crafty-sick: the posts come tiring on,
And not a man of them brings other news
Than they have learn'd of me: from Rumour's tongues
They bring smooth comforts false, worse than
true wrongs.

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