Monologue Essay Examples Page 2

A monologue from the play by Anton Chekhov NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Moscow Arts Theatre Series of Plays. Ed. Oliver M. Sayler. New York: Brentanos, 1922. ASTROFF: You can burn peat in your stoves and build your barns of stone. Oh, I don’t object, of course, to cutting wood when you have…

A monologue from the play by Anton Chekhov NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Moscow Arts Theatre Series of Plays. Ed. Oliver M. Sayler. New York: Brentanos, 1922. VOINITSKY: The Professor as usual sits in his library from morning till night– “Straining our mind, wrinkling our brow, We write, write, write, With no respite…

A monologue from the play by Anton Chekhov NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Moscow Arts Theatre Series of Plays. Ed. Oliver M. Sayler. New York: Brentanos, 1922. ASTROFF: Yes, ten years have made another man of me. And why? Because I am overworked. Nurse, I am on my feet from morning until evening….

A monologue from the play by Gregorio Martinez Sierra NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Plays of G. Martinez Sierra. G. Martinez Sierra. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1922. DON FRANCISCO: I’ve seen it happen. People talk of these “cures” … Anything may be a cure … for something. Yesterday they installed a regular medicine…

A monologue from the play by Alexei Tolstoy NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Moscow Art Theatre Series of Russian Plays. Ed. Oliver M. Sayler. New York: Brentanos, 1922. GODUNOFF: Tsar Ivan was like a great volcano, and from the bowels of this volcano came an earthquake which shook all the world, and there…

A monologue from the book by Mark Twain NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson And The Comedy Of Those Extraordinary Twins. Mark Twain. Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1894. WILSON: The judge and his late wife never had any children. The judge and his wife were past middle age when this…

A monologue from the play by August Strindberg NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Plays by August Strindberg, vol. 3. Trans. Edwin Bjorkman. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913. MASTER: I thought I heard the “little steps”–those little steps that came tripping down the corridor when she was looking for me. — It was the…

A monologue from the play by Anton Chekhov NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Moscow Arts Theatre Series of Plays. Ed. Oliver M. Sayler. New York: Brentanos, 1922. ANDREI: Oh, what has become of my past and where is it? I used to be young, happy, clever, I used to be able to think…

A monologue from the play by Anton Chekhov NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Moscow Arts Theatre Series of Plays. Ed. Oliver M. Sayler. New York: Brentanos, 1922. VERSHININ: Yes. [Laughs] How strange everything really is! [Pause] When the fire broke out, I hurried off home; when I get there I see the house…

A monologue from the play by Eugene O’Neill NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Thirst and Other One-Act Plays. Eugene O’Neill. Boston: Gorham Press, 1914. THE GENTLEMAN: You remember when the crash came? We were all in the salon. You were singing—a Cockney song I think? You were very beautiful. I remember a woman on…