Shakespeare's Monologues

Summaries for plays and scenes, as well as modern paraphrasing for each monologue, are now available on the site! Just look for the little scroll icons, and thought bubble icons. Enjoy

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Monologue of the Day:
Richard II | Act III, Sc iii, Ln 78 | Verse

King Richard: We are amaz'd; and thus long have we stood

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Monologue of the Day:
Hamlet | Act IV, Sc v, Ln 27 | Verse & Prose

Ophelia: How should I your true love know

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Monologue of the Day:
Two Gentlemen of Verona | II vi 1 | Verse

Proteus: To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn

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Monologue of the Day:
Henry V | Act II, Sc iii, Ln 9 | Prose

Mistress Quickly: Nay, sure, he's not in hell: he's in Arthur's bosom

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Monologue of the Day:
Othello | Act I, Sc iii, Ln 88 | Verse

Othello: Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors

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Monologue of the Day:
Here on my knee, before high heaven and you | All's Well That Ends Well | Verse

Helena: Then, I confess,

Act I, Sc iii, Ln 111
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Monologue of the Day:
King John | Act I, Sc i, Ln 121 | Verse

King John: Sirrah, your brother is legitimate

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Monologue of the Day:
Julius Caesar | Act II, Sc i, Ln 257 | Verse

Portia: Nor for yours neither. You've ungently, Brutus

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Monologue of the Day:
Twelfth Night, Or What You Will | Act V, Sc i, Ln 100 | Verse

Orsino: Why should I not, had I the heart to do it,

Read it here: https://MonosBy.WS/ors213
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Monologue of the Day:
Henry VI i | Act III, Sc iii, Ln 48 | Verse

Joan: Look on thy country, look on fertile France

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Monologue of the Day:
As You Like It | Epilogue | Prose

Rosalind: It is not the fashion to see the lady epilogue

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Monologue of the Day:
Henry VIII | Act II, Sc i, Ln 123 | Verse

Buckingham: When I came hither, I was Lord High Constable

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Monologue of the Day:
King Lear | Act I, Sc iv, Ln 147 | Verse

Goneril: This admiration, sir, is much o' th' favour

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Monologue of the Day:
Troilus & Cressida | Act I, Sc iii, Ln 33 | Verse

Nestor: With due observance of thy god-like seat

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Monologue of the Day:
Henry VI ii | Act III, Sc ii, Ln 9 | Verse

Queen Margaret: Be woe for me, more wretched than he is

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Monologue of the Day:
Antony & Cleopatra | III xi 171 | Verse

Antony: If that thy father live, let him repent

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Monologue of the Day:
Cymbeline | III i 19 | Verse

Queen: That opportunity Which then they had to take from 's, to resume

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Monologue of the Day:
Henry IV i | Act II, Sc ii, Ln 10 | Prose

Falstaff: I am accursed to rob in that thief's company

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Monologue of the Day:
Titus Andronicus | Act I, Sc i, Ln 109 | Verse

Tamora: Stay, Roman brethren! Gracious conqueror

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Monologue of the Day:
The Winter's Tale | Act IV, Sc 1, Ln 1 | Verse

Time (Chorus): I, that please some, try all, both joy and terror

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Monologue of the Day:
Richard III | Act IV, Sc iv, Ln 64 | Verse

Margaret: Bear with me; I am hungry for revenge

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Monologue of the Day:
Coriolanus | Act IV, Sc vii, Ln 32 | Verse

Aufidius: All places yield to him ere he sits down

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Monologue of the Day:
Love's Labour's Lost | Act V, Sc ii, Ln 773 | Verse

Princess: A time, methinks, too short

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Monologue of the Day:
Henry IV ii | Act I, Sc i, Ln 121 | Verse

Morton: I am sorry I should force you to believe

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Monologue of the Day:
Romeo and Juliet | Act II, Sc v, Ln 1 | Verse

Juliet: The clock strook nine when I did send the nurse

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Monologue of the Day:
The Tempest | Act V, Sc i, Ln 40 | Verse

Prospero: Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves

Read it here: https://MonosBy.WS/pros361
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Monologue of the Day:
Richard II | Act II, Sc ii, Ln 60 | Verse

Duchess: Yet one word more. Grief boundeth where it falls

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Monologue of the Day:
Hamlet | Act I, Sc ii, Ln 133 | Verse

Hamlet: O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,

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