Below is list of good monologues that I am familiar with. There are many more wonderful ones if you don't see something that interests you below. Also, if you are interested in bringing in a scene with someone else, feel free to do that as well, just find a partner and look for a scene. If you would like help, feel free to ask me. I will write little blurbs contextualizing the monologues below as the week goes on. If you're a lady and would like to work on Hamlet or a 'Men's' monologue, please feel free. And vice versa.
Men’s Monologues
All the World’s A stage (Jaques, As You Like It)
What’s he that wishes so? (Henry 5, Act 4. Scene 3)
We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us (Henry 5, Act 1, Scene 2)
O for a muse of fire that would ascend (Chorus, Henry 5, Act 1, Scene 1)
Now is the Winter of our discontent (Richard III, Act 1 sc. 1)
O, Pardon me thou bleeding piece of Earth (Mark Antony, Julius Ceasar)
O, What a Rogue and Peasant Slave am I! (Hamlet, Act 2, Sc. 2, line 555)
O that this too too solid flesh would melt (Hamlet, Act 1, Sc.2, line 133)
O then, I see Queen Mab hath Been with you. (Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, sc.4, line 59)
To leave my Julia shall I be forsworn (Proteus, Two Gents of Verona, Act 2, sc. 6, line 1)
Thou Nature art my goddess, to thy laws (Edmond, King Lear, Act 1, sc.2, line 1)
No matter where, of comfort no man speak (Richard II, Act 3. Sc. 2 line 148)
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world (Cassius, Julius Caesar, Act 1, sc. 2, line 143)
Friends, Romans Countrymen, lend me your ears! (Antony, Julius Caesar, Act 3, sc. 2, 52)
I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man (Benedik, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2. Sc.. 3, line 8)
This can be no trick, the conference was sadly born (Benedik ,Much ado About Nothing, Act 2, sc. 3, line 90)
When a man’s cur shall play the servant with him (Launce, Two Gentleman of Verona, (Act 4. Sc. 4)
And I forsooth in Love! (Berowne, Love’s Labours Lost
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? (Romeo, Romeo and Juliet,,
It must be by his death, but for my part (Brutus, Julius Ceasar
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now (Marc Antony, Julius Ceasar
Good friends, sweet friends, let me now stir you up
Women’s Monologues
Gallop apace you fiery footed steeds (Juliet, R&J)
For God’s sake go not to these wars (Lady Percy, Henry IV pt.2)
O hateful hands to tear such loving words (Julia, Two Gentleman of Verona)
The raven himself is hoarse (Lady Macbeth, Macbeth)
Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself (Lady Macbeth)
What do you tremble? Are you all afraid (Lady Anne, Act 1, scene 2)
Think not I love him, though I ask for him (Phoebe, As You Like It)
Is Brutus sick and is it physical (Portia, Julius Ceasar)
How happy some o’er other some can be! (Helena, Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Since what I am to say must be but that (Hermione, The Winter’s Tale
What studied torments tyrant hast for me? (Paulina, Winter’s Tale)
O good Iago, what shall I do to win my lord again? (Desdemona, Othello)
O, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? (Juliet, R&J)
Shall I speak ill of him who is my husband? (Juliet, R&J)
The quality of mercy is not strained (Portia, Merchant of Venice)
O for a Muse of Fire (Chorus, Henry V)
All the World’s a stage. (Jaques, As You Like It)
