Monologue
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. MYRRHA: Why do I love this man? My country’s daughtersLove none but heroes. But I have no country!The slave hath lost all save her bonds. I love him;And that’s…
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A monologue from the play by Aphra Behn NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. 3. Ed. Montague Summers. London: Heinemann, 1915. BREDWEL: You are my Lady, and the best of Mistresses–Therefore I would not grieve you, for I know you love this best–but most unhappy Man. [Pause.] My Master…
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A monologue from the play by William ShakespeareBEROWNE: And I, forsooth, in love!I, that have been love’s whip,A very beadle to a humorous sigh,A critic, nay, a night-watch constable,A domineering pedant o’er the boy,Than whom no mortal so magnificent.This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy,This signor-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid,Regent of love-rimes, lord of folded arms,The anointed…
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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. SEGISMUND: Princes and warriors of Poland–youThat stare on this unnatural sight aghast,Listen to one who, Heaven-inspired to doWhat in its secret wisdom Heaven forecast,By that same…
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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. PHAEDRA: Ah! cruel Prince, too wellYou understood me. I have said enoughTo save you from mistake. I love. But think notThat at the moment when…
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A monologue from the play by William ShakespeareYORK: She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France,Whose tongue more poisons than the adder’s tooth,How ill-beseeming is it in thy sexTo triumph like an Amazonian trullUpon their woes whom fortune captivates.But that thy face is vizard-like, unchanging,Made impudent with use of evil deeds,I would assay, proud…
Monologue
A monologue from the play by Seneca NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Seneca’s Tragedy, v. ii. Trans. Frank Justus Miller. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1917. OCTAVIA: Though I should endure what must be borne, ne’er could my woes be ended, save by gloomy death. With my mother slain, my father by crime snatched…
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A monologue from the play by William Shakespeare KING: Come hither you that would be combatants.Henceforth I charge you, as you love our favor,Quite to forget this quarrel and the cause.And you, my lords: remember where we are,In France, amongst a fickle wavering nation.If they perceive disssension in our looksAnd that within ourselves we disagree,How…
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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. MEDEA: From my apartment, ye Corinthian dames,Lest ye my conduct censure, I come forth:For I have known full many who obtainedFame and high rank;…
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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. ISABEL: Listen for the last time. You know how, sitting last night under the shelter of those white hairs in which my maiden youth had grown,…
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