In what medium be it print music movies or other was the first villain monologue delivered? What was it about?

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• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was almost certainly spoken around a fire in a cave and has been lost to time before humans really recorded history

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cave fire speech is not a medium in the strict sense, though.
    That means at least writing would have to have been available.
    Gilgamesh epic might be a good candidate, I think.

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    • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not a real monologue, but Humbaba mocks Gilgamesh and Enkidu for their hubris and lack of wisdom. He specifically attacks Enkidu, questioning his origins and his betrayal of the wild. He vows to slaughter them both and feed their flesh to the birds and beasts of the forest.

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The oldest in English that we have access to might be in Beowulf? Villain monologues are as old as stories, and stories are as old as humanity.

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• Jerb322@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cave drawings?

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• rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Judging from prose like Mobi Dick, it was written at about the same time, covered 10+ pages, had 342 commas and semicolons, and was a single epic run-on sentence.

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Richard III starts with a villain monolog.

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  • eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh dear Richard the 3rd

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t there several in the old testament?

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• notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would check the bible, it’s full with that kind of stuff.

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