Female roles from the plays, with the situation explained and the text in full. Every one opens in qbuddy with the other characters voiced, so you can rehearse the scene the speech comes from, not only the speech.
Macbeth · William Shakespeare
The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And…
Lady Macbeth · 128 words · 1 min spoken
Romeo and Juliet · William Shakespeare
Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, Towards Phoebus’ lodging. Such a waggoner As Phaeton would whip you to the west And bring in cloudy night immediately.…
Juliet · 261 words · 2 min spoken
The Merchant of Venice · William Shakespeare
The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest, It blesseth him that gives and him…
Portia · 172 words · 1 min spoken
Twelfth Night · William Shakespeare
I left no ring with her; what means this lady? Fortune forbid my outside have not charm’d her! She made good view of me, indeed, so much, That methought her…
Viola · 207 words · 2 min spoken
A Midsummer Night's Dream · William Shakespeare
How happy some o’er other some can be! Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so; He will not know what all but he…
Helena · 208 words · 2 min spoken
Othello · William Shakespeare
Yes, a dozen; and as many to the vantage as would store the world they played for. But I do think it is their husbands’ faults If wives do fall: say that they…
Emilia · 175 words · 1 min spoken
The Taming of the Shrew · William Shakespeare
Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow, And dart not scornful glances from those eyes To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor: It blots thy beauty as…
Katherina · 364 words · 3 min spoken
Pygmalion · George Bernard Shaw
Not a bit. It never did him no harm what I could see. But then he did not keep it up regular. [Cheerfully] On the burst, as you might say, from time to time.…
Eliza · 150 words · 1 min spoken
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