The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett

Author:Alan Bennett [Alan Bennett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571250769
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2009-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

WINDSOR

GREVILLE accompanies the KING, now in his dressing-gown, into the room where the blistering is to be done; a tray of burners and hot glasses waiting, a padded stool on which he is to be bound, and WARREN standing ready and gloved.

FITZROY: Your Majesty, it is the physicians’ opinion that Your Majesty’s health would benefit from the application of blisters to your back and legs.

KING: And it is His Majesty’s opinion that the physicians’ health would benefit by the application of blisters to their arse.

(The KING, seeing the fearsome preparations, turns back.)

GREVILLE: Your Majesty knows the love and esteem in which I hold Your Majesty. I beg you to submit to this treatment.

(He bars the king’s way.)

KING: Oh, Greville, you too.

WARREN: Bind him.

FITZROY: No. This is the King.

WARREN: Bind him, I say.

FITZROY: No. Bandage him.

(The KING struggles with PAGES, who take off his dressing-gown and pull him across to the blistering-stool.)

KING: No, no. Don’t touch me, damn you. I am the King. Go, tell the Queen I am assaulted. The Queen, help!

BRAUN: Let’s have your robe then, sir. Off we come. That’s it.

KING: I was the verb, the noun and the verb. Verb rules; subject: the King. I am not the subject now. Now I am the object, the King governed, the ruler ruled. I am the subordinate clause, the insubordinate George.

PAPANDIEK: Easy does it, sir.

FORTNUM: Come along, sir. Don’t make it hard.

PAPANDIEK: Let go, Your Majesty. That’s it.

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