So, I know I published this months ago, but I'm finally doing a promotion for my Shakespearean play The Passion of Gloucester and Sinead. It is available for free download until this Saturday. You can get it here.
And to help promote it, every day I'm going to release excerpts from it from different acts. Today are Act I soliloquies and bespoke by my male lead Gloucester. Enjoy!
Act 1, Scene II Gloucester
[Soliloquy.] Long have I
suffered these doleful rumours.
Ne’er had I thought my wife was of such humours.
My dear friend Exeter, this was not what
Thou desired for thy daughter, though she strut
Most nobly and I know that she hath made thee proud.
This day she is cherished by the crowd.
Despite our wish for an Albion at peace,
Sinéad still learnt thine art without cease.
Ne’er did we believe that thee was of royalty;
But what if the rumour hath authority? [End soliloquy.]
Act I, Scene III Gloucester
Ne’er had I thought my wife was of such humours.
My dear friend Exeter, this was not what
Thou desired for thy daughter, though she strut
Most nobly and I know that she hath made thee proud.
This day she is cherished by the crowd.
Despite our wish for an Albion at peace,
Sinéad still learnt thine art without cease.
Ne’er did we believe that thee was of royalty;
But what if the rumour hath authority? [End soliloquy.]
Act I, Scene III Gloucester
[ Soliloquy.] The truth revealed.
How many know? How long can it be concealed?
Doth it need be hidden? Exeter,
I invoke thy aid; what is it that may be done?
Young Sinéad, what would he will, thy father?
Whom amongst thee are thy friends? Art thou alone?
Thou hath forged thine own fate for many years
But now comes politics of crowns and conspires.
Need’st thy father to save thee from tears,
Someone to protect thee from malicious liars.
Can’t have thy father now, but perchance an uncle?
An uncle to save thee from all the trouble
And to love thee as thy father would have.
Uncle I am, to love thee as I should have.
How many know? How long can it be concealed?
Doth it need be hidden? Exeter,
I invoke thy aid; what is it that may be done?
Young Sinéad, what would he will, thy father?
Whom amongst thee are thy friends? Art thou alone?
Thou hath forged thine own fate for many years
But now comes politics of crowns and conspires.
Need’st thy father to save thee from tears,
Someone to protect thee from malicious liars.
Can’t have thy father now, but perchance an uncle?
An uncle to save thee from all the trouble
And to love thee as thy father would have.
Uncle I am, to love thee as I should have.
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The kingdom of Albion has enjoyed an unprecedented era of success in war and foreign diplomacy thanks to its guild of assassins led by the Duke of Gloucester and the kingdom's elite knights led by Gloucester's niece the Captain Sinéad. But the old foe, Calais, general of the forces of Gallia, seeks retribution for suffering losses to them both enacting a scheme that will pit these two paragon guardians against each other and the Crown. For the sake of Albion, Gloucester and Sinéad must find a way to reconcile before Calais can ravage the kingdom.
Included is a free copy of Love's Labour's Won:
Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Love's Labour's Lost" ended with a cliffhanger in Act 5, Scene 2. The four courtly couples swore to meet again after a "twelvemonth and a day," and upon that day, they would swear their oaths and be together. But, "Love's Labour's Lost" remained unfinished with other plays (i.e. "All's Well That End's Well") taking the place of its conclusion. Finally, after 400 years, one ambitious Shakespearean student undertook the burden to see "Love's Labour's Lost" finished.
Included is a free copy of Love's Labour's Won:
Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Love's Labour's Lost" ended with a cliffhanger in Act 5, Scene 2. The four courtly couples swore to meet again after a "twelvemonth and a day," and upon that day, they would swear their oaths and be together. But, "Love's Labour's Lost" remained unfinished with other plays (i.e. "All's Well That End's Well") taking the place of its conclusion. Finally, after 400 years, one ambitious Shakespearean student undertook the burden to see "Love's Labour's Lost" finished.
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