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Wuthering Heights & The Merchant of Venice: 2 x Monologues: Male 13+
Wuthering Heights & The Merchant of Venice: 2 x Monologues: Male 13+
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS: – By Emily Bronte – Adapted for ScriptsandSketches.com
In this scene, the young HEATHCLIFF has arrived back from an escapade on the moors, wet
and alone. He is explaining to the kindly housekeeper, Nelly, what has happened.
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE – By William Shakespeare – Adapted for ScriptsandSketches.com
LAUNCELOT GOBBO is the young servant of Shylock, the moneylender. In this street scene, he is deciding whether to run away from his master. He is talking to the audience.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS:
HEATHCLIFF:
Cathy is at Thrushcross Grange . I would have been there too, but they did not have the manners to ask me to stay. In fact, they threw me out because I laughed at them… and cursed a bit too! Let me get this jacket off. I’m wet through. (Taking his wet jacket off) It’s a long story, Nelly. Cathy and I escaped from the washhouse and thought we would just go and see whether the Lintons passed their Sunday evenings standing shivering in corners! We ran from the top of the Heights to the park, without stopping. We crept through a broken hedge, groped our way up the path, and planted ourselves on a flower-plot under the drawing-room window. Both of us were able to look in by clinging to the ledge. It was exciting!
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE:
LAUNCELOT GOBBO: Certainly, my conscience will serve me to run from this Jew my master: the fiend is at mine elbow, and tempts me, saying to me, “Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good Launcelot;’ or “good Gobbo;’ or “good Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs, take the start, run away:’ My conscience says “No; take heed honest Launcelot, take heed honest Gobbo;’ or as aforesaid “honest Launcelot Gobbo, do not run, scorn running with thy heels:
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