I need a Shakespeare monologue, help!!!!?

Question:I'm about to audition for a playwrights festival and I need a comteporary monologue (which I have) but I need a monologue from Shakespeare before I go in there. The only problem is, I'm not a fan of shakespeare and I'm not sure which one of his plays I should look at, can anyone give a suggestion?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm about to audition for a playwrights festival and I need a comteporary monologue (which I have) but I need a monologue from Shakespeare before I go in there. The only problem is, I'm not a fan of shakespeare and I'm not sure which one of his plays I should look at, can anyone give a suggestion?

I did Shylock's monologue from Shakepeare's "The Merchant of Venice" in high school. It was one of the easiest monologues to perform, where he was angry for mistreating him for being a Jew:

"To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as the Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."

Here's the brief summary of the plot, and the monologue itself:

http://www.theatredatabase.com/16th_cent...

Good luck!

http://www.monologuearchive.com/s/shakes...

choose Puck's final speech from Midsummer Nights Dream.

Avoid his most popular plays to choose a monologue from (Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummers Night Dread, etc), they have been done to death. And all Shakespeare's plays and characters are well known, so choosing a character other than the protagonist/antagonist will be beneficial. Hope this helps.