Monologue Essay Examples Page 6

A monologue from the play by August Strindberg NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Poet Lore, v. xvii. Autumn 1906. Number 111. MR. Y: Well! It happened this way! I was a student at Lund and wanted a loan from the bank. I had no serious debts and my father had some money — though…

A monologue from the play by Jacinto Benavente NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Plays: Second Series. Trans. John Garrett Underhill. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1919. PRINCESS HELENA: No, I am not laughing. I realize now that it was a mistake for me to throw myself upon the mercy of a man who never…

A monologue from the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Notes From the Underground. Trans. Constance Garnett. New York: Macmillian Company, 1918. NARRATOR: Why have you come to me, tell me that, please? Why have you come? Answer, answer! I’ll tell you, my good girl, why you have come. You’ve come…

A monologue by Marjorie Benton Cooke. NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from More Modern Monologues. Marjorie Benton Cooke. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1907. GIOVANNI: [In a heavy Italian accent] Ah, Signor, how do you do? I am very glad to see you. [Smiling] Yes, Signor, I have come back. I made the trip to Italia,…

A monologue from the play by August Strindberg NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Plays by August Strindberg. Trans. Edith and Warner Oland. Boston: John W. Luce and Co., 1912. JEAN: Do you know how people in high life look from the under world? No … of course you don’t. They look like hawks and…

A monologue from the novel by Gaston Leroux NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Phantom of the Opera. Gaston Leroux. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1911. CHRISTINE: I had heard him for three months without seeing him. The first time I heard it, I thought, as you did, that that adorable voice was singing in another room….

A monologue from the play by Maurice Donnay NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Three Modern Plays from the French. Ed. Barrett H. Clark. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1914. CLAIRE: Ah! You would not speak that way if you had seen her; if, like me, you had held her in your arms a…

A monologue from the play by Nick ZagoneCAT: Hear that song? I love this song. It’s one of those songs you always hear, but you never know who plays it. I’ll probably never know. I don’t want to know now. It would probably ruin the feeling. Whenever I hear this song I always feel there…

A monologue from the play by Josephine Preston Peabody NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Marlowe: A Drama in Five Acts. Josephine Preston Peabody. New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1901. BAME: I saw thee first, Ay, from the first day when you cheated them With tales of old acquaintance, and made fond, And charmed…

A monologue from the play by Josephine Preston Peabody NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Marlowe: A Drama in Five Acts. Josephine Preston Peabody. New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1901. MARLOWE: Hands off, I say! Stay then, and every devil may come to hear, And heaven may have it’s laugh! I ever speak As…