"Speak the speech, I pray you," counseled Hamlet, "as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue." The Prince of Denmark's timeless advice can be readily applied to the contents of this volume, which features several monologues from Hamlet's own tragic drama, as well as dozens of soliloquies from Shakespeare's other immortal works. Encompassing some of the finest monologues ever uttered by actors on the stage, this book is an invaluable source of audition or recital material for acting students as well as seasoned professionals. Students of Shakespeare and English literature wil... Read More
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"Speak the speech, I pray you," counseled Hamlet, "as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue." The Prince of Denmark's timeless advice can be readily applied to the contents of this volume, which features several monologues from Hamlet's own tragic drama, as well as dozens of soliloquies from Shakespeare's other immortal works. Encompassing some of the finest monologues ever uttered by actors on the stage, this book is an invaluable source of audition or recital material for acting students as well as seasoned professionals. Students of Shakespeare and English literature wil... Read More
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"Speak the speech, I pray you," counseled Hamlet, "as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue." The Prince of Denmark's timeless advice can be readily applied to the contents of this volume, which features several monologues from Hamlet's own tragic drama, as well as dozens of soliloquies from Shakespeare's other immortal works. Encompassing some of the finest monologues ever uttered by actors on the stage, this book is an invaluable source of audition or recital material for acting students as well as seasoned professionals. Students of Shakespeare and English literature will also find it a wonderful companion. Ranging from the playful whimsy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and Much Ado About Nothing to the powerful reflections of Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, and Richard III, this superlative collection offers moving speeches for both men and women from one of the world's finest monologuists.
Dover Original.
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Price: $7.95
Pages: 128
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Publication Date: 4th August 2006
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
Illustration Note: 0
ISBN: 9780486449401
Format: Paperback
BISACs: DRAMA / Shakespeare
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"He was not of an age, but for all time," declared Ben Jonson of his contemporary William Shakespeare (1564–1616). Jonson's praise is especially prescient, since at the turn of the 17th century Shakespeare was but one of many popular London playwrights and none of his dramas were printed in his lifetime. The reason so many of his works survive is because two of his actor friends, with the assistance of Jonson, assembled and published the First Folio edition of 1623.
Table of Contents
All's Well That Ends Well Helena: "O, were that all! I think not on my father" [Act I, Scene 1] Helena: "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie" [Act I, Scene 1] Antony and Cleopatra Enobarbus: "I am alone the villain of the earth" [Act IV, Scene 6] Enobarbus: "O, bear me witness, night--" [Act IV, Scene 9] Antony: "All is lost!/This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me" [Act IV, Scene 12] Cleopatra: "I dreamt there was an Emperor Antony" [Act V, Scene 2] As You Like It Orlando: "Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love" [Act III, Scene 2] Coriolanus Coriolanus: "Most sweet voices!/Better it is to die, better to starve" [Act II, Scene 3] Coriolanus: "O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn" [Act IV, Scene 4] Cymbeline Posthumus: "O noble misery!/To be i' the field, and ask, 'What news?' of me!" [Act V, Scene 3] Posthumus: "Sleep, thou hast been a grandsire, and begot" [Act V, Scene 4] Hamlet Hamlet: "Now I am alone./O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!" [Act II, Scene 2] Hamlet: "To be or not to be, that is the question" [Act III, Scene 1] Ophelia: "O, what a noble mind is here o'er-thrown!" [Act III, Scene 1] Hamlet: "'Tis now the very witching time of night" [Act III, Scene 2] Claudius, King of Denmark: "O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven!" [Act III, Scene 3] Henry IV, Part 1 Prince Hal: "I know you all, and will awhile uphold" [Act I, Scene 2] Hotspur: "'But, for mine own part, my lord, I could be well contented . . .'" [Act II, Scene 3] Falstaff: "If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused gurnet." [Act IV, Scene 2] Henry IV, Part 2 King Henry IV: "How many thousand of my poorest subjects" [Act III, Scene 1] Falstaff: "As I return, I will fetch off these justices . . ." [Act III, Scene 2] Henry V King Henry: "Upon the king! Let us our lives, our souls" [Act IV, Scene 1] King Henry: "O God of battles, steel my soldiers' hearts" [Act IV, Scene 1] Henry VI, Part 1 La Pucelle (Joan of Arc): "The regent conquers, and the Frenchmen fly" [Act V, Scene 3] Suffolk: "I have no power to let her pass" [Act V, Scene 3] Henry VI, Part 2 York: "Anjou and Maine are given to the French" [Act I, Scene 1] Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester: "Follow I must; I cannot go before" [Act I, Scene 2] York: "Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts" [Act III, Scene 1] King Henry: "O Thou that judgest all things, stay my thoughts" [Act III, Scene 2] Young Clifford: "Shame and confusion! all is on the rout" [Act V, Scene 2] Henry VI, Part 3 Henry: "This battle fares like to the morning's war" [Act II, Scene 5] Clifford: "Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies" [Act II, Scene 6] Richard, Duke of Gloucester: "Ay, Edward will use women honourably" [Act III, Scene 2] Warwick: "Ah, who is nigh? Come to me, friend or foe" [Act V, Scene 2] Richard, Duke of Gloucester: "What, will the aspiring blood of Lancaster" [Act V, Scene 6] Henry VIII Cardinal Wolsey: "So farewell to the little good you bear me" [Act III, Scene 2] Julius Caesar Brutus: "Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar" [Act II, Scene 1] Brutus: "O conspiracy!/Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night" [Act II, Scene 1] Antony: "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth" [Act III, Scene 1] King John Philip the Bastard: "Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!" [Act II, Scene 1] King Lear Edmund: "Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law" [Act I, Scene 2] Edmund: "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune . . ." [Act I, Scene 2] Lear: "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!" [Act III, Scene 2] Edgar: "When we our betters see bearing our woes" [Act III, Scene 6] Love's Labour's Lost Armado: "I do affect the very ground, which is base, where her shoe, which is baser, guided by her foot, which is basest, doth tread." [Act I, Scene 2] Berowne: "And I, forsooth, in love!" [Act III, Scene 1] Macbeth Macbeth: "This supernatural soliciting/Cannot be ill, cannot be good . . ." [Act I, Scene 3] Lady Macbeth: "They met me in the day of success; and I have learned by the perfectest report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge." [Act I, Scene 5] Lady Macbeth: "The raven himself is hoarse" [Act I, Scene 5] Macbeth: "Is this a dagger which I see before me" [Act II, Scene 1] Porter: "Here's a knocking indeed!" [Act II, Scene 3] Lady Macbeth: "Yet here's a spot" [Act V, Scene 1] Measure for Measure Angelo: "What's this? What's this? Is this her fault or mine?" [Act II, Scene 2] Angelo: "When I would pray and think, I think and pray" [Act II, Scene 4] Isabella: "To whom should I complain? Did I tell this" [Act II, Scene 4] Duke: "He who the sword of heaven will bear" [Act III, Scene 2] Angelo: "This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant" [Act IV, Scene 4] The Merry Wives of Windsor Ford: "What a damned Epicurean rascal is this!" [Act II, Scene 2] Falstaff: "The Windsor bell hath struck twelve; the minute draws on." [Act V, Scene 5] A Midsummer Night's Dream Helena: "How happy some o'er other some can be!" [Act I, Scene 1] Helena: "O, I am out of breath in this fond chase" [Act II, Scene 2] Hermia: "Help me, Lysander, help me! Do thy best" [Act II, Scene 2] Helena: "O weary night, O long and tedious night" [Act III, Scene 2] Bottom: "When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer" [Act IV, Scene 1] Pyramus: "Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams" [Act V, Scene 1] Much Ado About Nothing Benedick: "I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love . . ." [Act II, Scene 3] Benedick: "This can be no trick . . ." [Act II, Scene 3] Beatrice: "What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?" [Act III, Scene 1] Othello Iago: "And what's he then that says I play the villain" [Act II, Scene 3] Othello: "It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul" [Act V, Scene 2] Pericles Pericles: "Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven!" [Act II, Scene 1] Richard II Richard: "I have been studying how I may compare" [Act V, Scene 5] Richard III Richard: "Now is the winter of our discontent" [Act I, Scene 1] Richard: "Was ever woman in this humour wooed?" [Act I, Scene 2] Richard: "Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds!" [Act V, Scene 3] Romeo and Juliet Romeo: "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" [Act II, Scene 2] Juliet: "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" [Act II, Scene 2] Friar Laurence: "The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night" [Act II, Scene 3] Juliet: "Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds" [Act III, Scene 2] Juliet: "Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again" [Act IV, Scene 3] Romeo: "If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep" [Act V, Scene 1] Romeo: "Let me peruse this face" [Act V, Scene 3] The Taming of the Shrew Petruchio: "Thus have I politicly begun my reign" [Act IV, Scene 1] The Tempest Caliban: "All the infections that the sun sucks up" [Act II, Scene 2] Ferdinand: "There be some sports are painful, and their labour" [Act III, Scene 1] Timon of Athens Alcibiades: "Now the gods keep you old enough; that you may live" [Act III, Scene 5] Timon: "Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall" [Act IV, Scene 1] Flavius: "O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us!" [Act IV, Scene 2] Timon: "O blessed breeding sun! Draw from the earth" [Act IV, Scene 3] Troilus and Cressida Troilus: "Peace, you ungracious clamours! Peace, rude sounds!" [Act I, Scene 1] Cressida: "Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice" [Act I, Scene 2] Troilus: "I am giddy; expectation whirls me round" [Act III, Scene 2] Twelfth Night Olivia: "'What is your parentage?'" [Act I, Scene 5] Violet: "I left no ring with her: what means this lady?" [Act II, Scene 2] Malvolio: "'Tis but fortune; all is fortune" [Act II, Scene 5] Violet: "This fellow's wise enough to play the fool" [Act III, Scene 1] Sebastian: "This is the air; that is the glorious sun" [Act IV, Scene 3] The Two Gentlemen of Verona Julia: "Nay, would I were so anger'd with the same!" [Act I, Scene 2] Launce: "Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping" [Act II, Scene 3] Proteus: "To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn" [Act II, Scene 6] Valentine: "And why not death rather than living torment?" [Act III, Scene 1] Launce: "When a man's servant shall play the cur with him, look you, it goes hard . . ." [Act IV, Scene 4] Julia: "A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful" [Act IV, Scene 4] Valentine: "How use doth breed a habit in a man!" [Act V, Scene 4] The Winter's Tale Camillo: "O miserable lady! But, for me" [Act I, Scene 2]
"Speak the speech, I pray you," counseled Hamlet, "as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue." The Prince of Denmark's timeless advice can be readily applied to the contents of this volume, which features several monologues from Hamlet's own tragic drama, as well as dozens of soliloquies from Shakespeare's other immortal works. Encompassing some of the finest monologues ever uttered by actors on the stage, this book is an invaluable source of audition or recital material for acting students as well as seasoned professionals. Students of Shakespeare and English literature will also find it a wonderful companion. Ranging from the playful whimsy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and Much Ado About Nothing to the powerful reflections of Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, and Richard III, this superlative collection offers moving speeches for both men and women from one of the world's finest monologuists.
Dover Original.
Price: $7.95
Pages: 128
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Publication Date: 4th August 2006
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
Illustrations Note: 0
ISBN: 9780486449401
Format: Paperback
BISACs: DRAMA / Shakespeare
"He was not of an age, but for all time," declared Ben Jonson of his contemporary William Shakespeare (1564–1616). Jonson's praise is especially prescient, since at the turn of the 17th century Shakespeare was but one of many popular London playwrights and none of his dramas were printed in his lifetime. The reason so many of his works survive is because two of his actor friends, with the assistance of Jonson, assembled and published the First Folio edition of 1623.
All's Well That Ends Well Helena: "O, were that all! I think not on my father" [Act I, Scene 1] Helena: "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie" [Act I, Scene 1] Antony and Cleopatra Enobarbus: "I am alone the villain of the earth" [Act IV, Scene 6] Enobarbus: "O, bear me witness, night--" [Act IV, Scene 9] Antony: "All is lost!/This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me" [Act IV, Scene 12] Cleopatra: "I dreamt there was an Emperor Antony" [Act V, Scene 2] As You Like It Orlando: "Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love" [Act III, Scene 2] Coriolanus Coriolanus: "Most sweet voices!/Better it is to die, better to starve" [Act II, Scene 3] Coriolanus: "O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn" [Act IV, Scene 4] Cymbeline Posthumus: "O noble misery!/To be i' the field, and ask, 'What news?' of me!" [Act V, Scene 3] Posthumus: "Sleep, thou hast been a grandsire, and begot" [Act V, Scene 4] Hamlet Hamlet: "Now I am alone./O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!" [Act II, Scene 2] Hamlet: "To be or not to be, that is the question" [Act III, Scene 1] Ophelia: "O, what a noble mind is here o'er-thrown!" [Act III, Scene 1] Hamlet: "'Tis now the very witching time of night" [Act III, Scene 2] Claudius, King of Denmark: "O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven!" [Act III, Scene 3] Henry IV, Part 1 Prince Hal: "I know you all, and will awhile uphold" [Act I, Scene 2] Hotspur: "'But, for mine own part, my lord, I could be well contented . . .'" [Act II, Scene 3] Falstaff: "If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused gurnet." [Act IV, Scene 2] Henry IV, Part 2 King Henry IV: "How many thousand of my poorest subjects" [Act III, Scene 1] Falstaff: "As I return, I will fetch off these justices . . ." [Act III, Scene 2] Henry V King Henry: "Upon the king! Let us our lives, our souls" [Act IV, Scene 1] King Henry: "O God of battles, steel my soldiers' hearts" [Act IV, Scene 1] Henry VI, Part 1 La Pucelle (Joan of Arc): "The regent conquers, and the Frenchmen fly" [Act V, Scene 3] Suffolk: "I have no power to let her pass" [Act V, Scene 3] Henry VI, Part 2 York: "Anjou and Maine are given to the French" [Act I, Scene 1] Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester: "Follow I must; I cannot go before" [Act I, Scene 2] York: "Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts" [Act III, Scene 1] King Henry: "O Thou that judgest all things, stay my thoughts" [Act III, Scene 2] Young Clifford: "Shame and confusion! all is on the rout" [Act V, Scene 2] Henry VI, Part 3 Henry: "This battle fares like to the morning's war" [Act II, Scene 5] Clifford: "Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies" [Act II, Scene 6] Richard, Duke of Gloucester: "Ay, Edward will use women honourably" [Act III, Scene 2] Warwick: "Ah, who is nigh? Come to me, friend or foe" [Act V, Scene 2] Richard, Duke of Gloucester: "What, will the aspiring blood of Lancaster" [Act V, Scene 6] Henry VIII Cardinal Wolsey: "So farewell to the little good you bear me" [Act III, Scene 2] Julius Caesar Brutus: "Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar" [Act II, Scene 1] Brutus: "O conspiracy!/Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night" [Act II, Scene 1] Antony: "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth" [Act III, Scene 1] King John Philip the Bastard: "Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!" [Act II, Scene 1] King Lear Edmund: "Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law" [Act I, Scene 2] Edmund: "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune . . ." [Act I, Scene 2] Lear: "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!" [Act III, Scene 2] Edgar: "When we our betters see bearing our woes" [Act III, Scene 6] Love's Labour's Lost Armado: "I do affect the very ground, which is base, where her shoe, which is baser, guided by her foot, which is basest, doth tread." [Act I, Scene 2] Berowne: "And I, forsooth, in love!" [Act III, Scene 1] Macbeth Macbeth: "This supernatural soliciting/Cannot be ill, cannot be good . . ." [Act I, Scene 3] Lady Macbeth: "They met me in the day of success; and I have learned by the perfectest report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge." [Act I, Scene 5] Lady Macbeth: "The raven himself is hoarse" [Act I, Scene 5] Macbeth: "Is this a dagger which I see before me" [Act II, Scene 1] Porter: "Here's a knocking indeed!" [Act II, Scene 3] Lady Macbeth: "Yet here's a spot" [Act V, Scene 1] Measure for Measure Angelo: "What's this? What's this? Is this her fault or mine?" [Act II, Scene 2] Angelo: "When I would pray and think, I think and pray" [Act II, Scene 4] Isabella: "To whom should I complain? Did I tell this" [Act II, Scene 4] Duke: "He who the sword of heaven will bear" [Act III, Scene 2] Angelo: "This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant" [Act IV, Scene 4] The Merry Wives of Windsor Ford: "What a damned Epicurean rascal is this!" [Act II, Scene 2] Falstaff: "The Windsor bell hath struck twelve; the minute draws on." [Act V, Scene 5] A Midsummer Night's Dream Helena: "How happy some o'er other some can be!" [Act I, Scene 1] Helena: "O, I am out of breath in this fond chase" [Act II, Scene 2] Hermia: "Help me, Lysander, help me! Do thy best" [Act II, Scene 2] Helena: "O weary night, O long and tedious night" [Act III, Scene 2] Bottom: "When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer" [Act IV, Scene 1] Pyramus: "Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams" [Act V, Scene 1] Much Ado About Nothing Benedick: "I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love . . ." [Act II, Scene 3] Benedick: "This can be no trick . . ." [Act II, Scene 3] Beatrice: "What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?" [Act III, Scene 1] Othello Iago: "And what's he then that says I play the villain" [Act II, Scene 3] Othello: "It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul" [Act V, Scene 2] Pericles Pericles: "Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven!" [Act II, Scene 1] Richard II Richard: "I have been studying how I may compare" [Act V, Scene 5] Richard III Richard: "Now is the winter of our discontent" [Act I, Scene 1] Richard: "Was ever woman in this humour wooed?" [Act I, Scene 2] Richard: "Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds!" [Act V, Scene 3] Romeo and Juliet Romeo: "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" [Act II, Scene 2] Juliet: "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" [Act II, Scene 2] Friar Laurence: "The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night" [Act II, Scene 3] Juliet: "Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds" [Act III, Scene 2] Juliet: "Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again" [Act IV, Scene 3] Romeo: "If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep" [Act V, Scene 1] Romeo: "Let me peruse this face" [Act V, Scene 3] The Taming of the Shrew Petruchio: "Thus have I politicly begun my reign" [Act IV, Scene 1] The Tempest Caliban: "All the infections that the sun sucks up" [Act II, Scene 2] Ferdinand: "There be some sports are painful, and their labour" [Act III, Scene 1] Timon of Athens Alcibiades: "Now the gods keep you old enough; that you may live" [Act III, Scene 5] Timon: "Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall" [Act IV, Scene 1] Flavius: "O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us!" [Act IV, Scene 2] Timon: "O blessed breeding sun! Draw from the earth" [Act IV, Scene 3] Troilus and Cressida Troilus: "Peace, you ungracious clamours! Peace, rude sounds!" [Act I, Scene 1] Cressida: "Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice" [Act I, Scene 2] Troilus: "I am giddy; expectation whirls me round" [Act III, Scene 2] Twelfth Night Olivia: "'What is your parentage?'" [Act I, Scene 5] Violet: "I left no ring with her: what means this lady?" [Act II, Scene 2] Malvolio: "'Tis but fortune; all is fortune" [Act II, Scene 5] Violet: "This fellow's wise enough to play the fool" [Act III, Scene 1] Sebastian: "This is the air; that is the glorious sun" [Act IV, Scene 3] The Two Gentlemen of Verona Julia: "Nay, would I were so anger'd with the same!" [Act I, Scene 2] Launce: "Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping" [Act II, Scene 3] Proteus: "To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn" [Act II, Scene 6] Valentine: "And why not death rather than living torment?" [Act III, Scene 1] Launce: "When a man's servant shall play the cur with him, look you, it goes hard . . ." [Act IV, Scene 4] Julia: "A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful" [Act IV, Scene 4] Valentine: "How use doth breed a habit in a man!" [Act V, Scene 4] The Winter's Tale Camillo: "O miserable lady! But, for me" [Act I, Scene 2]
