your favourite SHAKESPEAREN monologue?

[aces25]

Posted: 6/18/07 at 2:06pm

what is your personal favourite??

[Piercemn]

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.

[yellibean2]

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].

[HoshiForever]

Posted: 6/18/07 at 2:18pm

Prospero's at the end of Tempest.

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 6/18/07 at 2:32pm

Lady Percy from Henry IV Part II.

Audra delivered a powerful rendition at LCT.

[myManCape]

Posted: 6/18/07 at 2:42pm

Not really a monologue but:

Tomorrow, tomorrow and Tomorrow.
Macbeth

[LostLeander]

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.

[Act0r721]

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

[raphael06]

Posted: 6/18/07 at 3:47pm

Benedick'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.

[AC126748]

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)

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:14pm

Iachimo's monologue as he stalks into Imogen's room in CYMBELINE....most of the speeches in ROMEO & JULIET...and of course the bottomless HAMLET.

[robbiej]

Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:20pm

I 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.

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

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...

[Aqualline2]

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

[WordedGrace]

Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:49pm

Anything 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

[gypsiedtokill]

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