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Female
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Time & Place
1183. King Henry’s palace in Chinon
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Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
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Queen Eleanor and her three sons have been
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Of course he has a knife. He always has a knife. We all have knives. It鈥檚 1183 and we鈥檙e barbarians. How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war.
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Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can鈥檛 we love one another just a little? That鈥檚 how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such possibilities, my children. We could change the world.
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