Monologue
A monologue from the play by Aristophanes NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies. Trans. Anonymous. London: The Athenian Society, 1922. STREPSIADES: Great gods! will these nights never end? will daylight never come? I heard the cock crow long ago and my slaves are snoring still! Ah! ’twas not so formerly. Curses…
Coriolanus
Monologue
A monologue from the play by William ShakespeareVOLUMNIA: O, no more, no more!You have said you will not grant us anything;For we have nothing else to ask but thatWhich you deny already; yet we will ask,That, if you fail in our request, the blameMay hang upon your hardness. Think with thyselfHow more unfortunate than all…
Comedy
Monologue
A monologue from the play by William Shakespeare ADRIANA: Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange and frown.Some other mistress hath thy sweet aspects;I am not Adriana, nor thy wife.The time was once when thou unurged wouldst vowThat never words were music to thine ear,That never object pleasing in thine eye,That never touch well welcome to thy…
Monologue
A monologue from the play by Pierre Corneille NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Cid. Trans. Roscoe Mongan. New York: Hinds & Noble, 1896. INFANTA: Do I remember whose daughter I am? Of course. I remember it so well, that I would shed my blood rather than degrade my rank. I might assuredly answer…
Monologue
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. ELECTRA: Ye captive women, ye who tend this home,Since ye are present to escort with meThese lustral rites, your counsel now I crave.How, while I pour these off’rings on…
Monologue
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. NURSE: My mistress bade me summon with all speedÆgisthos to the strangers, that he mayMore clearly learn, as man from man, this taleNewly announced. Before the menial train,She, at…
Monologue
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 CLARA: Not to spareYour father even, Eugenia! For shame!‘Tis time to tie your roving tongue indeed.Consider, too, we are not in the country,Where tongue and…
Monologue
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. ATHALIAH: While thus disturb’d, before me roseThe vision of a boy in shining robe,Such as the Hebrew priests are wont to wear.My drooping spirits at…
Monologue
A monologue from the play by William ShakespearePAROLLES: It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten…
Monologue
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. ADMETUS: My friends, I deem the fortune of my wifeHappier than mine, though otherwise it seems;For never more shall sorrow touch her breast,And she…
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