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Viola has been pretending to be a man named Thomas Kent in order to play Romeo is Will Shakespeare's new play Romeo and Juliet. She has been exchanging love letters with Will but has recently become engaged to the evil Lord Wessex. She decides to tell Will in a tearful letter, which Thomas Kent delivers to him. Will refuses to accept the reality of the situation and follows Thomas Kent to the De Lesseps home. Once there, he discovers that Thomas is actually Viola.
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Start: Will: Viola? Master Kent?
(Shocked by his voice, Viola turns to face him. She still has the Kent mustache)
Will: O brave new world! Are you my actor or my muse?
Viola: I am both but should be neither.
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End:
Viola: My bounty is as boundless as the sea.
Will: The more I give to thee, The more I have. For both are infinite.
Hall, Lee, Shakespeare in Love, Faber and Faber, 2014, pp. 52-55.
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