Canute the Great
A favourite comic monologue by Marriott Edgar.
If you attended school in mid-20th century England, you may well know the story. If not, perhaps first read King Canute and the Tide so you know what on earth this is about :))
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Canute the Great, one of the many monologues written by Marriott Edgar which I enjoyed in my youth.
More about the comic monologues on my website, and how I began to perform them.
If you have never heard of King Canute (aka King Cnut), this British Library blog page commemorating the 1000 anniversary of his conquest, provides historical background going beyond the story of the waves.
That story, popular but no doubt apocryphal, was only written down two hundred years after Cnut's death, in Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum.
(Thanks to Lois Boyd Prevost of Storytell for the British Library link.)
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