I'm trying to learn Edmund's monologue from King Lear, please help?

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I'm going to an audition on sunday at my school's theatre department which is casting for 4 stage productions. I have to have a contemporary monolouge and a shakespearean monlouge ready to go in. My theatre professor chose Edmunds speech from King Lear about how he is going to betray his brother. Here's where my problems begins, I'm not a big fan of shakespeare so I'm having a truly difficult time trying to find that "rhythm" everyone says is there when it comes to reciting shakespeare. I really want to learn this monologue and shakespeare in general, does anyone know what it is that I need to do to understand how to perform this?

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I'm going to an audition on sunday at my school's theatre department which is casting for 4 stage productions. I have to have a contemporary monolouge and a shakespearean monlouge ready to go in. My theatre professor chose Edmunds speech from King Lear about how he is going to betray his brother. Here's where my problems begins, I'm not a big fan of shakespeare so I'm having a truly difficult time trying to find that "rhythm" everyone says is there when it comes to reciting shakespeare. I really want to learn this monologue and shakespeare in general, does anyone know what it is that I need to do to understand how to perform this?

Try to find an annotated script, which will give definitions of what the words mean. If you look up everything you don't understand, you'll figure out what it means and discover that what the character is saying is truly basic & universal, as relevant today as it was in Shakespeare's time.
That could be a VERY FUN monologue, because Edmund is such a bad boy! His father Gloucester is a Duke, but Edmund is a bastard and not heir to the title & the estate, his younger brother is. He is setting out a whole scheme to discredit Edgar.
If that doesn't work, just spit out the words and everyone will think you know what you're saying!