Monologue Essay Examples Page 11

A monologue from the play by Percy Bysshe Shelley NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Prometheus Unbound; A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems. Percy Bysshe Shelley. London: C and J Ollier, 1820. MERCURY: Crouch then in silence. Awful Sufferer!To thee unwilling, most unwillinglyI come, by the great Father’s will driven down,To execute…

A monologue from the play by Sophocles NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Dramas. Sophocles. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1906. PHILOCTETES: O what a drudge and sport of Gods am I!Of whose ill plight no whisper ever cameTo my own home, or any coast of Greece,But they who thrust me out unrighteouslyLaugh and keep…

A monologue from the play by Beaumont and Fletcher NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Philaster, or Love Lies A-Bleeding. Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher. London: J.M. Dent, 1878. KING: To give a stronger testimony of loveThan sickly promises (which commonlyIn princes find both birth and burialIn one breath), we have drawn you, worthy sir,To…

A monologue from the play by William ShakespeareLEONATO: I pray thee cease thy counsel,Which falls into mine ears as profitlessAs water in a sieve. Give not me counsel,Nor let no comforter delight mine earBut such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine. Bring me a father that so loved his child,Whose joy of her…

A monologue from the play by William Shakespeare BENEDICK: O, she misused me past the endurance of a block! An oak but with one green leaf on it would have answered her; my very visor began to assume life and scold with her. She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was…

A monologue from the play by Jean Racine NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Dramatic Works of Jean Racine. Trans. Robert Bruce Boswell. London: George Bell and Sons, 1911. MITHRIDATE: It well becomes a traitress to talk thus,Who, nursing in her heart illicit loves,When I was raising her to glory’s height,The blackest treason had…

A monologue from the play by Pedro Calderon de la Barca NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Eight Dramas of Calderon. Trans. Edward Fitzgerald. London: Macmillan & Co., 1906. DONNA BLANCA: Oh, my liege,Not in one breathTurn royal mercy into needless threat;Though it be true my bosom has so longThis secret kept close prisoner, and…

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. FIRST VIRGIN: Most happy king and emperor of the earth,Image of honour and nobility,For whom the powers divine have made the world,And on whose throne the…

A monologue from the play by Aeschylus NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Dramas of Aeschylus. Trans. Anna Swanwick. London: George Bell and Sons, 1907. DANAOS: Ye to the Argives should with sacrifice,As to Olympian gods, libations pour,My daughters! for deliverers they have proved,Beyond dispute. ‘Gainst those assiduous friends,Your cousins, all that had been…

A monologue from the play by William ShakespeareANGELO: What’s this? what’s this? is this her fault or mine?The tempter, or the tempted, who sins most?Ha! Not she, nor doth she tempt; but it is IThat, lying by the violet in the sun,Do as the carrion does, not as the flower,Corrupt with virtuous season. Can it…