Monologue Essay Examples Page 10

A monologue from the play by Thomas Heywood NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from A Woman Killed With Kindness. Ed. A. W. Ward. London: Dent, 1897. WENDOLL: Pursued with horror of a guilty soul, And with the sharp scourge of repentance lashed, I fly from mine own shadow. O my stars! What have my parents…

A monologue from the play by Thomas Heywood NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from A Woman Killed With Kindness. Ed. A. W. Ward. London: Dent, 1897. WENDOLL: [Melancholy] I am a villain, if I apprehendBut such a thought! Then, to attempt the deed–Slave, thou art damned without redemption!I’ll drive away this passion with a song.A…

A monologue from the play by Ben Jonson NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Volpone (1605). VOLPONE: Why droops my Celia? Thou hast, in place of a base husband, found A worthy lover; use thy fortune well, With secrecy and pleasure. See, behold What thou art queen of, not in expectation– As I feed others–but…

A monologue from the play by Moliere NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Dramatic Works of Moliere, Vol. II. Ed. Charles Heron Wall. London: George Bell & Sons, 1898. CLEANTE: No, I am not a revered doctor, brother; no, all the knowledge of this world has not found its abode in me. I have…

A monologue from the play by Christopher Marlowe NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Masterpieces of the English Drama. Ed. William Lyon Phelps. New York: American Book Company, 1912. TAMBURLAINE: Black is the beauty of the brightest day; The golden ball of heaven’s eternal fire, That danc’d with glory on the silver waves, Now wants…

A monologue from the play by Christopher Marlowe NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Masterpieces of the English Drama. Ed. William Lyon Phelps. New York: American Book Company, 1912. TAMBURLAINE: In thee, thou valiant man of Persia, I see the folly of thy emperor. Art thou but captain of a thousand horse, That, by characters…

A monologue from the play by Euripides NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Plays of Euripides in English, vol. ii. Trans. Shelley Dean Milman. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1922. IPHIS: Why was this privilege, alas! denied To mortals, twice to flourish in the bloom Of youth, and for a second time grow old?…

A monologue from the play by Lord Byron NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Lord Byron: Six Plays. Lord Byron. Los Angeles: Black Box Press, 2007. SARDANAPALUS: I saw, that is, I dreamed myself Here—here—even where we are, guests as we were, Myself a host that deemed himself but guest, Willing to equal all in…

A monologue from the play by Christopher Marlowe NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Works. Christopher Marlowe. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910. GLOSTER: I, Edward, will use women honourably, Would he were wasted marrow, bones and all, That from his loins no issue might succeed To hinder me from the golden time I look for,…

A monologue from the play by William ShakespeareCLARENCE: O, I have passed a miserable night,So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights,That, as I am a Christian faithful man,I would not spend another such nightThough ’twere to buy a world of happy days–So full of dismal terror was the time. Methoughts that I had broken…