The Poetaster by Charlotte Brontë - A Dramatic Monologue
An extract from Henry Ryhmer's deathly dungeon monologue in Scene 5 of THE POETASTER - A DRAMA. Original, unedited text - wyrdy spellinx, punked-u-asian 'n' all, y'all here then I am - a martyr to the cause of honour - by an unjust judge & jurry I have been found guilty of the murder of one who had insulted me past all human sufferance. I should not have been worthy the name of man if I had tamely submitted to such treatment much less that of poet. but my heart's blood boiled high & with the ...