Monologue Essay Examples Page 5

A monologue from the play by Oscar Wilde 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. SALOME: I am amorous of thy body, Iokanaan! Thy body is white, like the lilies of the field that the mower hath never…

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. EURYALUS: Alas! my dear Arbates, if for a while I defied the power of Love, he takes now full vengeance! If you but knew what…

A monologue from the play by Walter Wykes JUNE: He was probably worried you’d find out from one of the girls. Cynthia perhaps. I always liked Cynthia. I found her very pleasant. Don’t you? Yes, I adored her. We used to get along quite well, Cynthia and I. We’d even meet for lunch now and…

A monologue from the play by Douglas Hill   JANINE: [Outraged] See? I knew you would do this. I knew you would have no reaction at all. The one thing that ought to matter to you—the one thing you have left and I can’t even get you to say a word. Maybe you’re just too…

A monologue from the play by John Millington Synge NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Playboy of the Western World. John Millington Synge. Boston: John W. Luce, 1911. CHRISTY: Up to the day I killed my father, there wasn’t a person in Ireland knew the kind I was, and I there drinking, waking, eating,…

A monologue from the play by Henrik Ibsen NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen, vol. vi: The League of Youth/Pillars of Society. Ed. William Archer. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1912. BERNICK: I find I can talk to you as I can to no one else; I shall conceal…

A monologue from the play by John Millington Synge NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea. John Millington Synge. London: Elkin Mathews, 1905. MAURYA: I’ve seen the fearfullest thing any person has seen, since the day Bride Dara seen the dead man with the child in his…

A monologue from the play by Henrik Ibsen NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen, vol. vi: The League of Youth/Pillars of Society. Ed. William Archer. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1912. BERNICK: I didn’t get you here to argue with you. I sent for you to tell you that…

A monologue from the play by Henrik Ibsen NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen, vol. iv: Peer Gynt. Trans. William and Charles Archer. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911. PRIEST: [Speaking beside a grave.] Now, when the soul has gone to meet its doom, And here the dust lies,…

A monologue from the play by J. M. Barrie NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Quality Street. J.M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. PHOEBE: I am tired of being ladylike. I am a young woman still, and to be ladylike is not enough. I wish to be bright and thoughtless and merry. It is…