Monologue Essay Examples Page 3

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. TARTUFFE: Our love for the beauty which is eternal, stifles not in us love for that which is fleeting and temporal; and we can easily…

A monologue from the play by Oscar Wilde NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from A Woman of No Importance. Oscar Wilde. London: Methuen & Co., 1916. MRS. ARBUTHNOT: I will never stand before God’s altar and ask God’s blessing on so hideous a mockery as a marriage between me and George Harford. I will not…

A monologue from the play by John Galsworthy NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Strife. John Galsworthy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1918. ROBERTS: Ye best know whether the condition of the Company is any better than the condition of the men. Ye best know whether ye can afford your tyranny–but this I tell ye:…

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. MARIANA: I want you to stop talking. You always lie like a newspaper–it doesn’t matter what sort of tale you tell, no one’s going to believe…

A monologue from the play by John Galsworthy NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Strife and Other Plays. John Galsworthy. Arlington: Black Box Press, 2008. ANTHONY: We have been made the subject of an attack. [Looking round at WILDER and SCANTLEBURY with ironical contempt.] I take it on my shoulders. I am seventy-six years old….

A monologue from the play by Arthur Wing Pinero NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Representative One-Act Plays by British and Irish Authors. Ed. Barrett H. Clark. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1921. MRS. JESMOND: No, no, Hal! Listen! Oh, listen! Hal — Hal, when the grave closed over thee, I did indeed believe that…

A monologue from the play by John Galsworthy NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Strife and Other Plays. John Galsworthy. Arlington: Black Box Press, 2008. ROBERTS: You don’t want to hear me, then? You’ll listen to Rous and to that old man, but not to me. You’ll listen to Sim Harness of the Union that’s…

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. MARTHA: It’s easy to say: “Why don’t I beat it?” I can’t. I never have enough coin to make a good break and git out of town. He takes it…

A monologue by E. Kellogg NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from One Hundred Choice Selections. Ed. Phineas Garrett. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co., 1897. SPARTACUS: Ye call me chief; and ye do well to call him chief who for twelve long years has met upon the arena every shape of man or beast the broad Empire…

A monologue from the play by Thomas Kyd NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Spanish Tragedy. Thomas Kyd. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1898. GHOST: When this eternal substance of my soul Did live imprison’d in my wanton flesh: Each in their function serving other’s need, I was a courtier in the Spanish…