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All Things Shakespeare - The Shakespeare Monologue Guide

Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5 Monologue - The Raven himself is hoarse

Rosalind’s Monologue: Act 3, Scene 5 As You Like It

Juliet's monologue in Act 2, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet

Helena's monologue in Act 1, Scene 3 of All's Well That Ends Well

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Helena's monologue in Act 3, Scene 2 of All's Well That Ends Well

Cleopatra’s Monologue: Act 4, Scene 15 "No more but e’en a woman, and commanded…"

Phoebe's Monologue from Act 3 Scene 5 of As You like It - 'I would not be thy executioner'

Phoebe's Monologue from Act 3 Scene 5 of As You like It - 'Think not I love him though I ask for him”

Luciana’s Monologue from Act 3 Scene 2 of The Comedy of Errors - “And may it be that you have quite forgot”

Volumnia’s Monologue from Act 5 Scene 3 of Coriolanus - “Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment”

Cassius's Monologue from Act 1, Scene 2 of Julius Caesar- “Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world”

Imogen’s Monologue from Act 3 Scene 4 of Cymbeline- “Why, I must die”

Imogen’s Monologue from Act 3 Scene 6 of Cymbeline- “I see a man's life is a tedious one”

Joan La Pucelle’s Monologue from Act 5 Scene 4 of Henry VI Part 1- “First, let me tell you whom you have condemn'd:”

Lady Percy's Monologue from Act 2, Scene 3 of Henry IV, Part 1 - “O my good lord, why are you thus alone?”

Lady Percy's Monologue from Act 2, Scene 3 of Henry IV, Part 2 - “O yet, for God’s sake, go not to these wars!”

Ophelia's Monologue from Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1- “O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!”

Portia's Monologue from Act 2, Scene 1 of Julius Caesar - “Is Brutus sick? and is it physical”

Portia's Monologue from Act 2, Scene 1 of Julius Caesar - “Nor for yours neither. You've ungently, Brutus,-”

Princess of France's Monologue from Act 2, Scene 1 of Love's Labour's Lost- “Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean”

Queen Gertrude's Monologue from Act 4, Scene 7 of Hamlet- “There is a willow grows askant the brook”

Queen Margaret's Monologue from Act 1, Scene 4 of Henry VI, Part 3- “Brave warriors, Clifford and Northumberland”

Constance's Monologue from Act 3, Scene 4 of King John- “Thou art not holy to belie me so”

Cordelia's Monologue from Act 1, Scene 1 of King Lear - “Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave”

Cordelia's Monologue from Act 4, Scene 7 of King Lear- “O you kind Gods,”

Goneril's Monologue from Act 1, Scene 3 of King Lear- “By day and night he wrongs me”

Helena's monologue from Act 1 Scene 1 of A Midsummer Night's Dream- “How happy some o'er other some can be!”

Isabella's Monologue from Act 2, Scene 4 of Measure for Measure- “To whom should I complain?”

Beatrice’s Monologue from Act 4, Scene 1 of Much Ado About Nothing, : "Kill Claudio!"

Cressida’s Monologue from Act 3, Scene 2 of Troilus and Cressida, "Boldness comes to me now, and brings me heart"

Desdemona’s Monologue from Act 4, Scene 2 of Othello- "Alas, Iago, what shall I do to win my lord again?"

Emilia’s Monologue from Act 4, Scene 3 of Othello, - "But I do think it is their husbands’ faults"

Helena’s Monologue from Act 3, Scene 2 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, - "Lo, she is one of this confederacy!”

Hermione’s Monologue from Act 3, Scene 2 of The Winter’s Tale, - "Sir, spare your threats"

Isabella's Plea to Angelo from Act 2, Scene 2 of Measure for Measure, -”So you must be the first that gives this sentence”

Jailor’s Daughter’s Monologue from Act 2, Scene 4 of The Two Noble Kinsmen,- "Why should I love this gentleman?"

Jailor’s Daughter’s Monologue from Act 2, Scene 6 of The Two Noble Kinsmen, - "Let all the dukes and all the devils roar"

Julia’s Monologue from Act 1, Scene 2 of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, - "Nay, would I were so anger’d with the same!"

Julia’s Monologue from Act 4, Scene 4 of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, - "How many women would do such a message?"

Juliet’s Monologue from Act 2, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, - "Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face"

Juliet’s Monologue from Act 2, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, - "The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse"

Juliet’s Monologue from Act 3, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, - "Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds"

Juliet’s Monologue from Act 3, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, - "O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!"

Katherine’s Monologue from Act 5, Scene 2 of The Taming of the Shrew, - "Fie, fie! Unknit that threatening unkind brow"

Lady Anne’s Monologue from Act 1, Scene 2 of Richard III, - "What, do you tremble? Are you all afraid?"

Lady Macbeth's Monologue from Act 1, Scene 7 of Macbeth, - “Was the hope drunk”

Miranda’s Monologue from Act 1, Scene 2 of The Tempest, - "If by your art, my dearest father"

Portia's Monologue from Act 3 Scene 2 of The Merchant of Venice, - “You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand”

Portia's Monologue from Act 4 Scene 1 of The Merchant of Venice,- Portia's "The Quality of Mercy" Speech

Queen Margaret’s Monologue from Act 1, Scene 3 of Richard III, - "What? Were you snarling all before I came?"

Queen Margaret’s Monologue from Act 4, Scene 4 of Richard III, - "I called thee then vain flourish of my fortune"

Tamora’s Monologue from Act 2, Scene 3 of Titus Andronicus, - "Have I not reason, think you, to look pale?"

The Nurse’s Monologue from Act 1, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet, - "Even or odd of all days in the year"

Titania’s Monologue from Act 2, Scene 1 of A Midsummer Night's Dream, - "These are the forgeries of jealousy"

Titania’s Monologue from Act 2, Scene 1 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, - "Set your heart at rest"

Viola’s Monologue from Act 2, Scene 2 of Twelfth Night, - "I left no ring with her: what means this lady?"

Hamlet’s Monologue: Act 3 Scene 3 – “Now Might I Do It Pat, now he is praying;”