Monologue Essay Examples Page 8

A monologue from the play by Aristophanes NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies. Trans. Anonymous. London: The Athenian Society, 1922. PHILOCLEON: At the outset I will prove to you that there exists no king whose might is greater than ours. Is there a pleasure, a blessing comparable with that of a…

A monologue from the play by Neith Boyce NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Forum: Volume 51. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1914. MADDALENA: Listen, Signora! I am speaking, I, Maddalena, the poor slave, the dirt beneath your feet. You bought me. A hundred lire a month, and Carme, my husband, working hard every day, cannot…

A monologue from the play by A. A. Milne NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from First Plays. A. A. Milne. London: Chatto & Windus, 1921. BOB: If it hadn’t been for you, I should have shot myself long ago. What’s the family creed? “I believe in Gerald. I believe in Gerald the Brother. I believe…

A monologue from the play by Ben Jonson NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Volpone (1605). CORVINO: Death of mine honour, with the city’s fool! A juggling, tooth-drawing, prating mountebank! And at a public window! where, whilst he, With his strained action, and his dole of faces, To his drug-lecture draws your itching ears, A…

A monologue from the play by William Shakespeare LADY MACBETH: He has almost supped. Why have you left the chamber? Was the hope drunk Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now to look so green and pale At what it did so freely? From this time Such I account thy…

A monologue from the play by Maxim Gorky NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Moscow Art Theatre Series of Plays. Ed. Oliver M. Sayler. New York: Brantanos, 1922. LUKA: Some one has to be kind, girl — some one has to pity people! Christ pitied everybody — and he said to us: “Go and…

A monologue from the play by William Shakespeare LAUNCE: When a man’s servant shall play the cur with him, look you, it goes hard: one that I brought up of a puppy, one that I saved from drowning when three or four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it. I have taught him,…

A monologue from the play by Maxim Gorky NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Moscow Art Theatre Series of Plays. Ed. Oliver M. Sayler. New York: Brantanos, 1922. NASTYA: At night he came into the garden. I had been waiting for him quite awhile. I trembled with fear and grief–he trembled, too . ….

A monologue from the novel by Victor Hugo NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Victor Hugo’s Works. Trans. Isabel F. Hapgood. New York: Kelmscott Society, 1896. FANTINE: Monsieur Javert, I beseech your mercy. I assure you that I was not in the wrong. If you had seen the beginning, you would have seen. I swear…

A monologue from the play by Oscar Wilde NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Lady Windermere’s Fan. Oscar Wilde. London, Elkin Mathews, 1893. MRS. ERLYNNE: Believe what you choose about me. I am not worth a moment’s sorrow. But don’t spoil your beautiful young life on my account! You don’t know what may be in…