your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
aces25
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/13/04
#1your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 2:06pmwhat is your personal favourite??
#2re: your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 2:14pm
The Queen Mab Speech, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet's Soliloquoy (Hamlet is my favourite Shakespearean play)
Paulina's summation from The Winter's Tale
The Agincourt speech from Henry V
Richard III's opening monologue
Those are my favourites in order.
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yellibean2
Featured Actor Joined: 5/17/06
#2re: your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 2:15pm
That's a tough one...
Personally, my favorite to perform was Kate's "No shame but mine" wedding speech from Taming of the Shrew. Just in general, Shakespeare's comedies are pretty much the most fun an actress can have [without taking her clothes off].
#3re: your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 2:18pmProspero's at the end of Tempest.
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#4re: your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 2:32pm
Lady Percy from Henry IV Part II.
Audra delivered a powerful rendition at LCT.
myManCape
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/26/05
#5re: your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 2:42pm
Not really a monologue but:
Tomorrow, tomorrow and Tomorrow.
Macbeth
"Have they come yet?"
LostLeander
Broadway Star Joined: 3/18/05
#6re: your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 2:43pm
There are some KILLER monologues for both Henry and Richard in Henry VI Part 3. This is the play that precedes Richard III, chronologically.
Richard is rising through the ranks, and plotting all the while on how to become king, and weak Henry is trying to hold on.
Great, relatively unknown monologues, and one of the better / more interesting history plays, IMO.
Personally, I think I have too much bloom.
#7re: your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 3:45pm
I have a sweet spot for any one in Romeo and Juliet.
Aside from that, Shylock's short lament in "Merchant of Venice" with the famous "If you ****us, do we not bleed?"
edit: haha, this board censors the word p.r.i.c.k. ?
Updated On: 6/18/07 at 03:45 PM
#8re: your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 3:47pmBenedick's monologue upon discover Beatrice's supposed love for him! It was so much to perform and I just love his frat boy (initial) character.
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not."-Sunday in the Park with George
#9re: your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 3:53pm
7 Ages of Man (As You Like It)
Juliet's soliloquoy (Romeo and Juliet)
Lady Macbeth's letter speech (Macbeth)
"Friends, Romans, countrymen..." (Julius Caesar)
Edgar's "Poor Tom" monologue (King Lear)
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#10re: your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:14pmIachimo's monologue as he stalks into Imogen's room in CYMBELINE....most of the speeches in ROMEO & JULIET...and of course the bottomless HAMLET.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#11re: your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:20pmI don't even think I have an explanation for it, but Portia's 'Is Brutus sick...' from JULIUS CEASAR is something I find endlessly thrilling.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
#12re: your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:26pm
My favorite is Hamlet's first soliloquy, "O, that this too, too sullied flesh..." I also like th Crispian Day speech from Henry V. And Prospero's at the end of The Tempest. And of course Shylock's if you...
Wow, I can't pick.
English majors...
Megan Mullally as Karen Walker on Will and Grace: "Tell me more. Tell me more. Like does he have a car?"
#13re: your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:33pm
this is hard... it's between:
1. Much ado about nothing: benedic find our Beatrice "loves" him
2. Hamlet: Ophelia gone mad (not a monologue, but I did take out everyone else's lines and just did her when she was mad for a competition once and it was great!)
3. Macbeth: "out damn spot!" Lady Macbeth
4.King Lear: "blow winds" king Lear
#14re: your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:49pmAnything from Cymbeline.. Just completely amzing thoughts and prose. It's rarely used by other people, at least from what I am always told maybe that's why I enjoy it
I'm not gonna hate you in the magazines,
(I'm better than that)
I'm not gonna compromise my Christianity,
(I'm better than that)
You know I'm not gonna diss you on the Internet
Cause my momma taught me better than that.
#15re: your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 7:22pm
Jaques' "All the world's a stage" piece in As You Like It
Julia's letter piece in Two Gentlemen of Verona
Cressida's "Hard to seem won" piece in Troilus & Cressida
Prospero at the end of Tempest
Puck's final monologue in A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Jailer's Daughter ("Why should I love this gentleman?") in Two Noble Kinsmen
I can't talk now. I gotta go get my wallet out of the toaster.
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