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  • A Monologue from the play "King Lear" by William Shakespeare
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CharacterEdmund
GenderMale
Age Range(s)Young Adult (20-35), Adult (36-50)
Type of monologue / Character isAngry, Persuasive, Lamenting, Complaining, Frustrated, Insecure, Afraid
TypeDramatic
PeriodRenaissance
GenreTragedy, Drama
DescriptionEdmund curses the fact that he is a bastard
LocationACT I, Scene 2

Summary

Edmund is the bastard son of Gloucester, a nobleman who is loyal to the king of Britain, King Lear. In the first scene he is introduced when his father introduces him to Kent, a nobleman, and explains that even if he is his bastard son, he loves him anyways.

In this monologue Edmund curses the fact that he is a bastard and society's attitude toward bastard sons. He sets out to seize his father's estate and "top" his brother Edgar, the "legitimate" son.

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Excerpt
EDMUND
Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law
My services are bound. Wherefore should I
Stand in the plague of custom, and permit
The curiosity of nations to deprive me,
For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines
Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?
When my dimensions are as well compact,
My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us
With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take
More composition and fierce quality
Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,
Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops,
Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well, then,
Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:
Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund
As to the legitimate: fine word,--legitimate!
Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

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