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A monologue by Carl CarmerNOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Modern Literature for Oral Interpretation. Ed. Gertrude E. Johnson. New York: The Century Co. , 1920. I knew somethin’ was up as soon’s I seeThe nags and mules hitched round the court house square–“They’ll ride tonight,” I says, and I was right. I’m sixty-two year…

A monologue from the play by Ann Wuehler MRS. ANDERSON: Adults are never honest. Let’s be children. Let’s throw rocks, let’s weep and say everything we actually think. Why do you love him? He says you can’t find a job right now. He says you’re so pretty and so nice. Nice– you’re what every man…

A monologue from the play by John Galsworthy NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Mob. John Galsworthy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1914. HELEN: I’ve seen–a vision! I’d just fallen asleep, and I saw a plain that seemed to run into the sky–like–that fog. And on it there were–dark things. One grew into a…

A monologue from the play by Niccolo Machiavelli NOTE: This monologue is reprinted with the author’s permission. All inquiries should be directed to the author at: [email protected] TIMOTEO: I’m the arbiter of justice. The voice of God. Ordained on this earth, placed here by our Lord Jesus Christ himself, to decide what is good and…

A monologue from the play by George Bernard Shaw NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Man and Superman. Bernard Shaw. New York: Brentano’s, 1903. TANNER: You, Tavy, are an artist: that is, you have a purpose as absorbing and as unscrupulous as a woman’s purpose…. The true artist will let his wife starve, his children…

A monologue from the play by Jacinto Benavente NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Plays by Jacinto Benavente. Trans. John Garrett Underhill. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921. RUBIO: You ought to have killed me. That was the first time in my life that I was ever afraid. I never expected they would let Norbert…

A monologue from the play by Walter Wykes MAN: All right, look … I didn’t want to tell you, but I’ve fallen behind. At work. I can’t keep up. Recently, they’ve … ahh … they’ve let a few people go. Every day there are fewer and fewer people doing the same amount of work. They…

A monologue from the play by Moliere NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Dramatic Works of Moliere, Vol. III. Ed. Charles Heron Wall. London: George Bell & Sons, 1891. SOSTRATUS: Madam, all minds are not gifted with the necessary qualities which the delicacy of those fine sciences called abstruse require. There are some so…

A monologue by Nixon Waterman. New York: The Century Co., 1920. Well, yes, I calculate it is a little quiet here. For one who has been about the world and traveled far and near. But maybe because I never lived in any other place, to me the town seems about as lively as a good…

A monologue from the play by St. John Ervine 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. MAGGIE CATHER: Listen, Henry Hinde. All the time you were away in Liverpool where nobody knew you, I was here where everybody…