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Question: Famous Shakespearean MONOLOGUES!!!!?
Yes, hi everyone! It's me again, the one who asked about the Shakespearean dialogues!. Well, my partner and I split up because we discovered it would be kind of hard to do a dialogue!. So instead, I am flying solo!. I have to do a monologue!
Not something from Romeo and Juliet and not the "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" from Julius Caesar (I did that one last year, and I actually won the little competition!)
I want something where I can be dramatic, not something funny!.!.!.!.I'm not good at funny!. Drama, please!. It has to be at least 25 lines long (but not more than 50, please!)
Well, that's all I can think of!. I'll add details if I think of something else!. Thanks for all the help! I truly appreciate it!Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Well, you can do Lady Macbeth's famous soliloquy in Act 1, Scene 5!.
"The raven himself is hoarse!.!.!.!.!. To cry hold! Hold!"
Of course it's a lot longer than that!.
But that was the part where she was summoning her strength to convince Macbeth to do murder!. Her punch line:
"Come you spirits, that tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here!"
Well, when we did that for a Shakespearean soliloquy competition, that was the hardest one to pull off!. Take a look at it, it's quite dramatic!. :) Good luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com
This is from Shakespeare's play Othello!. A great speech which is somewhat ironic during the play because Iago is the villain and yet he is kind of trying to convince the audience or perhaps himself that he is not!. It is one of my favs and is 27 lines!. Good luck in your competition!
IAGO
And what's he then that says I play the villain!?
When this advice is free I give and honest,
Probal to thinking and indeed the course
To win the Moor again!? For 'tis most easy
The inclining Desdemona to subdue
In any honest suit: she's framed as fruitful
As the free elements!. And then for her
To win the Moor--were't to renounce his baptism,
All seals and symbols of redeemed sin,
His soul is so enfetter'd to her love,
That she may make, unmake, do what she list,
Even as her appetite shall play the god
With his weak function!. How am I then a villain
To counsel Cassio to this parallel course,
Directly to his good!? Divinity of hell!
When devils will the blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,
As I do now: for whiles this honest fool
Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes
And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor,
I'll pour this pestilence into his ear,
That she repeals him for her body's lust;
And by how much she strives to do him good,
She shall undo her credit with the Moor!.
So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh them all!.Www@QuestionHome@Com