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  • A Monologue from the play "Henry VI Part 1" by William Shakespeare
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Character Mortimer
Gender Male
Age Range(s) Senior (>50)
Type of monologue / Character is Dying, Descriptive, Lamenting, Reminiscing life story/Telling a story
Type Dramatic
Period Renaissance
Genre Historical, Drama
Description Mortimer talks about his imminent death
Location ACT II, Scene V

Summary

Mortimer is an English noble that has been imprisoned in the Tower of London for many years because of his claim to the English throne. He is Richard Plantagenet's uncle.

In this monologue he talks about his declining strength and imminent death. He is waiting for his nephew Richard Plantagenet to visit him and also talks about the injustice that his nephew has also suffered being "deprived of honour and inheritance"

Written by Administrator

Excerpt
MORTIMER
Kind keepers of my weak decaying age,
Let dying Mortimer here rest himself.
Even like a man new haled from the rack,
So fare my limbs with long imprisonment.
And these grey locks, the pursuivants of death,
Nestor-like aged in an age of care,
Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer.
These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent,
Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent;
Weak shoulders, overborne with burthening grief,
And pithless arms, like to a wither'd vine
That droops his sapless branches to the ground;
Yet are these feet, whose strengthless stay is numb,
Unable to support this lump of clay,
Swift-winged with desire to get a grave,
As witting I no other comfort have.
But tell me, keeper, will my nephew come?

First Gaoler
Richard Plantagenet, my lord, will come:
We sent unto the Temple, unto his chamber;
And answer was return'd that he will come.

MORTIMER
Enough: my soul shall then be satisfied.
Poor gentleman! his wrong doth equal mine.
Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign,
Before whose glory I was great in arms,
This loathsome sequestration have I had:
And even since then hath Richard been obscured,
Deprived of honour and inheritance.
But now the arbitrator of despairs,
Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries,
With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence:
I would his troubles likewise were expired,
That so he might recover what was lost.

Comments

Administrator

This monologue is intercut by the Gaoler who tells him Richard Plantagenet will come to visit him. The monologue is divided in two parts that can be performed as one. In the first part he laments his weakness, in the second he talks about his nephew Richard Plantagenet and the injustice that he has to suffer.

This monologue is performed by an old men who is very weak and is about to die. Could be performed with two other actors playing the Gaolers who help him walk.

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