(ALL STAND)
EDMUND
Why
ALL
bastard?
EDMUND
wherefore
ALL
base?
HENRY
Why do I have to be the underdog. Why must have I been born with this curse.
MARCO
I must have the land of my half brother, the love of our father should be no different for either of us.
GERMAN
I am standing up for myself. I am jealous of my brother and deserve my part.
DAVID
I do not appreciate my father. I do not get respect.
HENRY
I will be someone in my life. I hate that everyone puts bastards down.
GERARDO
I don’t believe it is right that because I am a bastard and Edgar is Legitimate, he gets land, He is no better than me it’s just words that make us different when we are the same.
EDMUND
Why
ALL
bastard?
EDMUND
wherefore
ALL
base?
DAVID
What kind of word is that? Why so harsh? I can be just like my brother.
EDMUND
When my dimensions are as well compact,
My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
As honest madam’s issue?
GERARDO
Just because I’m a bastard doesn’t mean anything
CHRISTIAN
I’m just as good I don’t deserve such a punishment.
MARCO
Why must this, reputations of bastard be mine to hold, after all am I not my father, son and therefore entitled to something?
ANTOINE
Why is my half brother so ignorant not to see we both share the same blood. Why is my father so ignorant not to see we share the same blood.
ALL
Why brand they us
REFRAIN (ALL except the designated speaker)
Underneath the following:
With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
DAVID
I do not get respect. Due to the fact that I’m so called a bastard.
GERARDO
I said that I am upset and tired of being a bastard.
HENRY
Why must have I been born with this curse.
ANTOINE
we share the same blood.
CHRISTIAN
Why can’t I just be a son not a good or bad son. Just a son.
ANTOINE CHRISTIAN
It’s tragic/ to be whom they call bastard. /Anything but a bastard.
MARCO
Bastards need respect.
EDMUND
Why
ALL
bastard?
EDMUND
wherefore
ALL
base?
EDMUND
Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take
More composition and fierce quality
Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,
Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops,
Got ‘tween asleep and wake?
ANTOINE
I am very upset with the fact that I’m the bastard when he crept around at night to be with my mother.
EDMUND
Well, then,
GERMAN
I deserve better.
HENRY
It begins now.
GERMAN
I myself, say to the Gods, I deserve better.
EDMUND
Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:
Our father’s love is to the bastard Edmund
As to the legitimate: fine word,–legitimate!
Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:
DAVID
Why does he get everything and I get nothing? I’m so angry I must get the same thing as my Brother I must get that kingdom.
CHRISTIAN
I’m just as good I don’t deserve such a punishment. Gods, stand up for me and all the other bastards for we are humans and just as capable. Just as worthy.
HENRY
Why do I have to be the underdog. Why must have I been born with this curse. I’m tired of being discriminated and put down.
ANTOINE
It’s tragic to be whom they call bastard. But I shall overcome. I shall get all I am worth.
MARCO
Why must this, reputations of bastard be mine to hold?
GERMAN
It’s time I take my place and bring my legitimate brother down. I deserve better. I myself, say to /the Gods, I deserve better. Why has thou forsaken me, why so I live in pity. I shall plan and bring my bro down for my sake and for my revenge.
MARCO
/Gods please help me out.
DAVID
/God if you’re really out there help me through this struggle.
EDMUND
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
KEVIN
And I will be someone in life.
ALL
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
TIM
God watch out for a bastard
Just cuz he has my father he’s the master
Nah today the fop will flee
The legit Edgar shall kneel to me
They outcast us like lepers
Or call us bastards not worthy of ears
For my father not loves me for what he says
I shall see Edgar’s body lay
(ALL SIT)
EDGAR
I heard myself proclaimed,
And by the happy hollow of a tree
Escaped the hunt………
