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A monologue from the play by John Galsworthy NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Justice: A Tragedy in Four Acts. John Galsworthy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910. FROME: If it please your lordship and members of the jury. I am not going to dispute the fact that the prisoner altered this cheque, but I…

A monologue from the play by George Bernard Shaw NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Androcles and the Lion; Overruled; Pygmalion. Bernard Shaw. New York: Brentano’s, 1916. DOOLITTLE: It ain’t the lecturing I mind. I’ll lecture them blue in the face, I will, and not turn a hair. It’s making a gentleman of me that…

A monologue from the play by George Bernard Shaw NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Androcles and the Lion; Overruled; Pygmalion. Bernard Shaw. New York: Brentano’s, 1916. DOOLITTLE: Don’t say that, Governor. Don’t look at it that way. What am I, Governors both? I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor:…

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. PRIEST: Oh! Have pity upon me! You think yourself unhappy; alas! alas! you know not what unhappiness is. Oh! to love a woman! to be a priest! to be…

A monologue from the play by William Shakespeare HAMLET: O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wanned, Tears in his…

A monologue from the play by Oscar Wilde NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from A Woman of No Importance. Oscar Wilde. London: Methuen & Co., 1916. MRS. ALLONBY: The Ideal Man! Oh, the Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse…

A monologue from the play by O. Henry   GIRL: I will excuse the remark you have just made because the mistake was, doubtless, not an unnatural one—in your circle. I asked you to sit down; if the invitation must constitute me your honeysuckle, consider it withdrawn. Now, tell me about these people passing and…

A monologue from the play by August Strindberg NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Plays by August Strindberg, vol. 4. Trans. Edwin Bjorkman. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916. STUDENT: My father died in a madhouse. . . . Like all of us, he was surrounded by a circle of acquaintances whom he called friends…

A monologue from the play by Walter WykesSARAH: Sure. It was flattering at first. I was the love interest back then, the heroine, you know, just dripping sexuality, inspiring armies with my charms, seducing heroes with a look. It was good for the ego, I’ll say that much. All my friends were terribly jealous. But…

A monologue from the play by Angel Guimera NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Masterpieces of Modern Spanish Drama. Ed. Barrett H. Clark. New York: Duffield & Co., 1917. RAMON: It’s an absolute lie, the whole story. We have not abandoned her. As a child she was left without father or mother when she was…