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Shakespeare monologues

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Hamlet · William Shakespeare

Hamlet: "To be, or not to be"

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea…

Hamlet · 275 words · 2 min spoken

Hamlet · William Shakespeare

Hamlet: "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I"

Ay, so, God b’ wi’ ye. Now I am alone. O what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of…

Hamlet · 459 words · 4 min spoken

Macbeth · William Shakespeare

Macbeth: "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow"

She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,…

Macbeth · 90 words · 1 min spoken

Macbeth · William Shakespeare

Macbeth: "Is this a dagger which I see before me"

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:— I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal…

Macbeth · 232 words · 2 min spoken

Macbeth · William Shakespeare

Lady Macbeth: "Come, you spirits"

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

Juliet: "Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds"

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

Romeo and Juliet · William Shakespeare

Mercutio: the Queen Mab speech

O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an…

Mercutio · 327 words · 3 min spoken

The Merchant of Venice · William Shakespeare

Portia: "The quality of mercy is not strain’d"

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

The Merchant of Venice · William Shakespeare

Shylock: "Hath not a Jew eyes?"

To bait fish withal; if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgrac’d me and hind’red me half a million, laugh’d at my losses, mock’d…

Shylock · 194 words · 1 min spoken

As You Like It · William Shakespeare

Jaques: "All the world’s a stage"

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His…

Jaques · 211 words · 2 min spoken

Twelfth Night · William Shakespeare

Viola: "I left no ring with her"

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

Helena: "How happy some o’er other some can be!"

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

A Midsummer Night's Dream · William Shakespeare

Puck: "If we shadows have offended"

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme,…

Puck · 94 words · 1 min spoken

Othello · William Shakespeare

Emilia: "But I do think it is their husbands’ faults"

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

Katherina: "Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow"

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

Twelfth Night · William Shakespeare

Orsino: "If music be the food of love, play on"

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again, it had a dying fall; O,…

Orsino · 114 words · 1 min spoken

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