Does Anyone Know Of Any Good Shakespearean Female Monologues?
I’ll list every good one I can find: Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 2 Scene 1 Titania “These are the forgeries of jealousy…” Same, Act 1 Scene 1 Helena has a considerable monologue. Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Scene 3 Nurse “Even or odd, of all the days in the year, Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.” Portia has a few that you could stretch to two minutes in Merchant of Venice. Taming of the shrew Act 5 Scene 2 Katharina “Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow” Much Ado you’ve done Hamlet throughout Ophelia has some long winded things that could be drawn to two minutes easily. Lady Macbeth has a lot, and they’re really, really good. Some are mini-monologues from a dialogue where the other person (Macbeth) says little) Act 1 Scene 5, “Give him tending; He brings great news.” Act 1 Scene 7 “Was the hope drunk Wherein you’d dress’d yourself?” Act 1 Scene 7 “What beast was’t then” Act 1 Scene 7 “We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place.” Act 2 Scene 2 “That which
