The Libertine

But now you're too angry. 467 00:31:40,442 --> 00:31:43,862 Of course I'm fucking angry! You walk into this theatre in your 30-shilling boots 468 00:31:44,029 --> 00:31:47,282 telling me how I should set about my work! I warn you, I have a temper. 469 00:31:47,407 --> 00:31:50,494 And I have been known to strike out with the first object at hand. 470 00:31:50,661 --> 00:31:55,040 If that be a property blade, some have sharper edges than is needful, so have a care. 471 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,084 Ahhh. 472 00:31:57,292 --> 00:32:00,087 To die onstage at the hands of a beautiful woman. 473 00:32:00,212 --> 00:32:01,839 I am no such! 474 00:32:03,799 --> 00:32:07,803 I think I can make you an actress of truth, not a creature of artifice. 475 00:32:07,803 --> 00:32:09,847 I can do this. 476 00:32:10,013 --> 00:32:13,183 But I cannot train you unless you give a little towards me. 477 00:32:16,812 --> 00:32:18,856 It's not in my nature to give. 478 00:32:19,815 --> 00:32:21,942 I have my talent and I'm jealous of it. 479 00:32:22,109 --> 00:32:26,363 And though I give you credit that you and you alone in all the town have seen it, 480 00:32:26,822 --> 00:32:31,201 I am not so dazzled by the lord and master in you that I cannot resent you. 481 00:32:32,828 --> 00:32:34,454 Yes. 482 00:32:34,830 --> 00:32:36,456 You are right. 483 00:32:36,748 --> 00:32:40,043 I am intent on doing something that no other has yet done. 484 00:32:40,335 --> 00:32:43,338 And I lost my purpose yesterday with fear of the pit. 485 00:32:43,338 --> 00:32:45,382 But I will conquer them. 486 00:32:45,549 --> 00:32:49,094 And it shall not be said when I have my fame and my £2 a week 487 00:32:49,344 --> 00:32:53,640 that Lord Rochester took to me and touched me with the shining wing of his genius 488 00:32:53,765 --> 00:32:56,727 and so turned me into a little corner of his greatness. No! 489 00:32:56,852 --> 00:33:00,772 I shall be valued for me and for what I knew I could do upon this stage! 490 00:33:00,856 --> 00:33:05,068 And for what I, Lizzie Barry... how I... I took the heat of my own soul and moulded it 491 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,322 and turned it into a wondrous thing and so triumphed. 492 00:33:09,865 --> 00:33:11,909 If I can help you to that triumph, 493 00:33:12,367 --> 00:33:16,830 I'm not so devoted to the trumpeting of my own works that I would wish to take credit. 494 00:33:16,872 --> 00:33:18,498 So you say now. 495 00:33:19,666 --> 00:33:23,837 But in the ale house, when the play is done, and the talk is of my Cleopatra, 496 00:33:24,046 --> 00:33:27,883 will you not glide towards your cronies with a "I taught her that piece of business" 497 00:33:28,175 --> 00:33:32,221 or "She could not be heard in the gallery until I instructed her in a trick or two"? 498 00:33:32,387 --> 00:33:34,014 Madam, I offer my services. 499 00:33:34,056 --> 00:33:38,602 If you see no advantage in them, they can as easy be withdrawn. 500 00:33:38,810 --> 00:33:41,772 You could buy my slit for a pound a night, sir. 501 00:33:42,814 --> 00:33:44,858 I would not mind that. 502 00:33:45,067 --> 00:33:47,361 But I think you would not have it so. 503 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,574 What I think you want is power over me, which I do bridle at. 504 00:33:52,824 --> 00:33:55,369 For it is only I who can do what you say I can do. 505 00:33:56,370 --> 00:33:59,790 If you wish to play a part in this I would strongly know why. 506 00:34:00,874 --> 00:34:03,418 Ask yourself what you want from the theatre. 507 00:34:03,877 --> 00:34:06,672 I want the passionate love of my audience. 508 00:34:06,797 --> 00:34:09,883 I want when I make a sweep of my arm to carry their hearts away. 509 00:34:10,384 --> 00:34:13,887 And for when I die, for them to sigh for never seeing me again. 510 00:34:13,887 --> 00:34:16,139 Till the next afternoon. 511 00:34:17,391 --> 00:34:19,434 There is your answer. 512 00:34:20,394 --> 00:34:23,438 I want to be one of that multitude. 513 00:34:25,899 --> 00:34:27,943 I wish to be moved. 514 00:34:29,403 --> 00:34:31,446 I cannot feel in life. 515 00:34:31,822 --> 00:34:34,700 I must have others do it for me here in the theatre. 516 00:34:35,951 --> 00:34:38,996 You are spoken of as a man with a stomach for life. 517 00:34:39,079 --> 00:34:41,623 I am the cynic of our golden age. 518 00:34:42,457 --> 00:34:46,086 This bounteous dish, which our great Charles and our great God 519 00:34:46,461 --> 00:34:52,134 have, more or less in equal measure, placed before us, sets my teeth permanently on edge. 520 00:34:54,970 --> 00:34:58,682 Life has no purpose. It is everywhere undone by arbitrariness. 521 00:34:58,807 --> 00:35:01,810 I do this and it matters not a jot if I do the opposite. 522 00:35:02,811 --> 00:35:04,855 But in a playhouse, 523