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William Shakespeare

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Monologues

Monologues from shows associated with William Shakespeare

Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-...

Countess

All's Well That Ends Well - Play

3

O, were that all! I think not on my fath...

Helena

All's Well That Ends Well - Play

7

Are you meditating on virginity? [......

Parolles

All's Well That Ends Well - Play

3

Then, I confess, Here on my knee, b...

Helena

All's Well That Ends Well - Play

15

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie...

Helena

All's Well That Ends Well - Play

19

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have...

Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra - Play

4

O Charmian, Where think'st thou he is...

Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra - Play

1

I dream'd there was an Emperor Antony:...

Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra - Play

0

Sir, I will eat no meat, I'll not drink,...

Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra - Play

3

I will tell you. The barge she sat in...

Enobarbus

Antony and Cleopatra - Play

0

All is lost; This foul Egyptian hath...

Mark Antony

Antony and Cleopatra - Play

3

And why, I pray you? Who might be your m...

Rosalind

As You Like It - Play

20

All the world's a stage,And all the men...

Jacques

As You Like It - Play

3

I would not be thy executioner:I fly the...

Phoebe

As You Like It - Play

4

Think not I love him, though I ask for h...

Phoebe

As You Like It - Play

10

As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fa...

Orlando de Bois

As You Like It - Play

0

It is not the fashion to see the lady th...

Rosalind

As You Like It - Play

5

Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange and fro...

Adriana

The Comedy of Errors - Play

1

A heavier task could not have been impos...

Egeon

The Comedy of Errors - Play

1

And thereof came it that the man was mad...

Emilia

The Comedy of Errors - Play

3

Sweet mistress--what your name is else,...

Antipholus of Syracuse

The Comedy of Errors - Play

1

You are too absolute; Though therein...

Volumnia

Coriolanus - Play

2

O, no more, no more! You have said yo...

Volumnia

Coriolanus - Play

2

I am known to be a humorous patrician, a...

Menenius

Coriolanus - Play

1

My name is Caius Marcius, who hath done...

Caius Martius, later Coriolanus

Coriolanus - Play

1

The crickets sing, and man's o'erlabour'...

Iachimo

Cymbeline - Play

0

Is there no way for men to be but women...

Posthumus Leonatus

Cymbeline - Play

0

How? of adultery? Wherefore write you no...

Pisanio

Cymbeline - Play

0

O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!Is...

Hamlet

Hamlet - Play

0

O that this too too solid flesh would me...

Hamlet

Hamlet - Play

0

One woe doth tread upon another's heel,S...

Gertrude

Hamlet - Play

1

Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for s...

Polonius

Hamlet - Play

0

To be, or not to be--that is the questio...

Hamlet

Hamlet - Play

4

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I prono...

Hamlet

Hamlet - Play

0

I am thy father's spirit, Doomed for a...

Ghost of Hamlet’s Father

Hamlet - Play

0

Look here, upon this picture, and on thi...

Hamlet

Hamlet - Play

0

Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you...

Hamlet

Hamlet - Play

0

**PRINCE HAL** I know you all, and wi...

Prince Hal

Henry IV Part 1 - Play

0

**HOTSPUR** _'But for mine own part, my...

Hotspur

Henry IV Part 1 - Play

0

God pardon thee! yet let me wonder, Harr...

King Henry IV

Henry IV Part 1 - Play

0

**LADY PERCY** O, my good lord, why a...

Lady Percy

Henry IV Part 1 - Play

0

Why doth the crown lie there upon his pi...

Prince Hal (later King Henry V)

Henry IV Part 2 - Play

0

How many thousand of my poorest subjects...

King Henry IV

Henry IV Part 2 - Play

0

I would you had but the wit: 'twere bett...

Sir John Falstaff

Henry IV Part 2 - Play

0

Captain! thou abominable damned cheater,...

Doll Tearsheet

Henry IV Part 2 - Play

0

Upon the king! let us our lives, our sou...

King Henry V

Henry V - Play

0

Nay, sure, he's not in hell: he's in Art...

Nell (Hostess)

Henry V - Play

1

Once more unto the breach, dear friends,...

King Henry V

Henry V - Play

0

We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant w...

King Henry V

Henry V - Play

0

What's he that wishes so? My cousin W...

King Henry V

Henry V - Play

0

Dauphin, I am by birth a shepherd’s daug...

Joan la Pucelle

Henry VI Part 1 - Play

1

Start: What chance is this that suddenly...

Talbot

Henry VI Part 1 - Play

0

Presumptuous priest! this place commands...

Gloucester

Henry VI Part 1 - Play

0

Come hither, you that would be combatant...

King Henry VI

Henry VI Part 1 - Play

0

Start: Ah, Gloucester, teach me to forge...

Eleanor

Henry VI Part 2 - Play

1

Start: Ah, gracious lord, these days are...

Gloucestor

Henry VI Part 2 - Play

0

Start: Be woe for me, more wretched than...

Queen Margaret

Henry VI Part 2 - Play

1

Shame and confusion! All is on the rout....

Young Clifford

Henry VI Part 2 - Play

0

Start: KING HENRY VI This battle fares...

King Henry VI

Henry VI Part 3 - Play

1

Start: RICHARD Ay, Edward will use wome...

Richard, Duke of Gloucester

Henry VI Part 3 - Play

0

Start: QUEEN MARGARET Great lords, wise...

Queen Margaret

Henry VI Part 3 - Play

1

Start: KING HENRY VI Hadst thou been ki...

King Henry VI

Henry VI Part 3 - Play

0

So farewell to the little good you bear...

Cardinal Wolsey

Henry VIII - Play

0

Sir, I desire you do me right and justic...

Queen Katharine

Henry VIII - Play

0

I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus...

Cassius

Julius Caesar - Play

0

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me you...

Mark Antony

Julius Caesar - Play

2

You've ungently, Brutus, Stole from m...

Portia

Julius Caesar - Play

2

Be patient till the last. Romans country...

Marcus Brutus

Julius Caesar - Play

0

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of ear...

Mark Antony

Julius Caesar - Play

0

If gall or wormwood have a pleasant tast...

King Edward

King Edward III - Play

0

Resolute to be dissolute; and, therefore...

Countess of Salisbury

King Edward III - Play

0

To die is all as common as to live: The...

Lord Audley

King Edward III - Play

0

I might perceive his eye in her eye lost...

Lodowick

King Edward III - Play

0

Thou art not holy to belie me so; I a...

Constance

King John - Play

0

O vanity of sickness! fierce extremes I...

Prince Henry

King John - Play

0

A foot of honour better than I was; But...

Philip the Bastard (Sir Richard Plantagenet)

King John - Play

0

(Intercut) Unhappy that I am, I cann...

Cordelia

King Lear - Play

6

I heard myself proclaimed, And by the h...

Edgar

King Lear - Play

0

This is the excellent foppery of the wor...

Edmund

King Lear - Play

0

Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law...

Edmund

King Lear - Play

0

O, reason not the need! Our basest begga...

King Lear

King Lear - Play

0

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage...

King Lear

King Lear - Play

0

Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men o...

King Lear

King Lear - Play

0

Detested kite! thou liest. My train a...

King Lear

King Lear - Play

0

And I, forsooth, in love! I, that hav...

Berowne

Love’s Labour's Lost - Play

0

Have at you, then, affection's men-at-...

Berowne

Love’s Labour's Lost - Play

0

Under the cool shade of a sycamore I...

Boyet

Love’s Labour's Lost - Play

0

Come, sir, you blush; as his your case i...

King Ferdinand of Navarre

Love’s Labour's Lost - Play

0

Is this a dagger which I see before me,...

Macbeth

Macbeth - Play

2

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'tw...

Macbeth

Macbeth - Play

2

Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress...

Lady Macbeth

Macbeth - Play

4

My former speeches have but hit your tho...

Lennox

Macbeth - Play

0

There would have been a time for such a...

Macbeth

Macbeth - Play

1

Come, you spirits That tend on mortal...

Lady Macbeth

Macbeth - Play

2

Who will believe thee, Isabel? My uns...

Angelo

Measure for Measure - Play

0

To whom should I complain? Did I tell th...

Isabella

Measure for Measure - Play

2

From thee, even from thy virtue! What...

Angelo

Measure for Measure - Play

0

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where...

Claudio

Measure for Measure - Play

0

If to do were as easy as to know what we...

Portia

The Merchant of Venice - Play

2

The quality of mercy is not strain'd,...

Portia

The Merchant of Venice - Play

2

Signior Antonio, many a time and oft...

Shylock

The Merchant of Venice - Play

0

He hath disgraced me, and hindered me...

Shylock

The Merchant of Venice - Play

1

**FENTON**: From time to time I have ac...

Fenton

The Merry Wives of Windsor - Play

0

**FORD**: What a damned Epicurean rasc...

Mr. Ford

The Merry Wives of Windsor - Play

0

**MISTRESS QUICKLY**: About, about;...

Mistress Quickly

The Merry Wives of Windsor - Play

0

FALSTAFF Nay, you shall hear, Master Br...

Sir John Falstaff

The Merry Wives of Windsor - Play

0

When my cue comes, call me, and I will a...

Nick Bottom

A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Play

0

How happy some o'er other some can be! T...

Helena

A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Play

4

If we shadows have offended, Think but t...

Robin Goodfellow Puck

A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Play

3

My mistress with a monster is in love....

Robin Goodfellow Puck

A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Play

2

These are the forgeries of jealousy:...

Titania

A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Play

6

My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememb...

Oberon

A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Play

0

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows...

Oberon

A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Play

0

O, she misused me past the endurance of...

Benedick

Much Ado About Nothing - Play

2

Sweet prince, let me go no farther to mi...

Borachio

Much Ado About Nothing - Play

0

Marry, this well carried shall on her be...

Friar Francis

Much Ado About Nothing - Play

0

I do much wonder that one man, seeing ho...

Benedick

Much Ado About Nothing - Play

2

What fire is in mine ears? Can this be t...

Beatrice

Much Ado About Nothing - Play

4

But I do think it is their husbands' fau...

Emilia

Othello - Play

2

[Thus do I ever make my fool my purse:...

Iago

Othello - Play

0

Despise me, if I do not. Three great one...

Iago

Othello - Play

0

O good Iago, What shall I do to win my...

Desdemona

Othello - Play

2

That I did love the Moor to live with hi...

Desdemona

Othello - Play

1

Start: Neither of these are so bad as th...

Marina

Pericles, Prince of Tyre - Play

3

Start: Be one of those that think The...

Dionyza

Pericles, Prince of Tyre - Play

0

Start: Yea, mistress, are you so perempt...

Simonides

Pericles, Prince of Tyre - Play

0

I have been studying how I may compare...

King Richard II

Richard II - Play

0

How long shall I be patient? ah, how lon...

Edmund, Duke of York

Richard II - Play

0

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