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A monologue from the play by Euripides NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Plays of Euripides in English, vol. i. Trans. Shelley Dean Milman. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1920. HELEN: To what illsHave I been subject, O my dear companions!Did not my mother, as a prodigyWhich wondering mortals gaze at, bring me forth?For…

A monologue from the play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Faust. Trans. Bayard Taylor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1898. MEPHISTOPHELES: Poor son of Earth, how couldst thou thus alone Have led thy life, bereft of me? I, for a time, at least, have worked thy cure; Thy fancy’s rickets plague…

A monologue from the play by Euripides NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Plays of Euripides in English, vol. i. Trans. Shelley Dean Milman. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1920. HECUBA: Not oneExists, whose sorrows equal mine, unlessYou of Calamity herself would speak.Yet hear the motive why I clasp your knees.If I appear to…

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. AHOLIBAMAH: Let them fly!I hear the voice which says that all must die,Sooner than our white-bearded patriarchs died;And that on highAn ocean is prepared,While from belowThe deep shall rise…

A monologue from the play by Ben Jonson NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Every Man in His Humour (1598). KNOWELL: When I was young, he lived not in the stews,Durst have conceived a scorn, and uttered itOn a gray head; age was authorityAgainst a buffoon; and a man had thenA certain reverence paid unto…

A monologue from the play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Faust. Trans. Bayard Taylor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1898. MARGARET: Thou wilt unloose my chain, And in thy lap wilt take me once again. How comes it that thou dost not shrink from me?– Say, dost thou know, my friend,…

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. ATHENA: Not slighted are ye, powers august! through rageCurse not with hopeless blight the abode of man.I too on Zeus rely; why speak of that?And sole among the gods…

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. DON JUAN: There is no longer any shame in hypocrisy; it is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues. To act the…

A monologue from the play by Aristophanes NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies. Trans. Anonymous. London: The Athenian Society, 1922. PRAXAGORA: [Disguised as a man.] My country is as dear to me as it is to you, and I groan, I am grieved at all that is happening in it. Scarcely…

A monologue from the play by William ShakespeareMENENIUS: I am known to be a humorous patrician, and one that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in’t; said to be something imperfect in favoring the first complaint; hasty and tinder-like upon too trivial motion; one that converses more with…