English 3203: Shakespeare=s Histories and Comedies                                        Mercer

English 5583: Studies in Shakespeare

 

                                                                Monologues for Scene Experience

 

                                                                                    act, scene, lines page     # of lines                      

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

 

Lysander & Hermia: AThe course of true love@                1.1.132-15      258                  24       

 

Titania: AThese are the forgeries of jealousy@                              2.1.81-117       261                  37

 

Oberon: AI know a bank where the wild thyme blows@   2.1.248-67       263                  20

 

Hippolyta & Theseus: AThe lunatic, the lover, and the poet@ 5.1.1-27     275                  27

 

Much Ado about Nothing

 

Benedick: AThis can be no trick@ [prose]                                   2.3.220-246     378                  27

 

As You Like It

 

Duke Senior: ASweet are the uses of adversity@              2.1.1-17           410                  17       

 

Jaques: AAll the world=s a stage@                                                2.7.139-66       415                  28

[May add the Duke=s 4 lines preceding this speech, which would make 32 lines.]          

 

Rosalind: AIt is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue@        Epilogue 1-23   434                  23

 

Twelfth Night

 

Duke Orsino: AIf music be the food of love@                               1.1.1-15           442                  15

 

Viola: AI left no ring with her@                                        2.2.17-41         450                  25

 

Clown (Feste): AO mistress mine@ [song]                       2.3.39-44, 47-52         451                  12

Clown (Feste): AWhen that I was and a little [tiny] boy@ [song]

                                                                                                5.1.389-408     473                  20

[Could do these two songs together.  Could sing rather than recite them.]

 

Richard III

 

Richard: ANow is the winter of our discontent@               1.1.1-40           752                  40

 

Lady Anne: ASet down, set down your honorable load@ 1.2.1-32           754                  32

 

Richard: AWas ever woman in this humor woo=d?@                     1.2.227-64       757                  38

 

Clarence: AMethoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks@           1.4.9-33           761                  25

 

Richard: AO coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!@       5.3.177-206     791                  30

 

Richmond: AWe will unite the White Rose and the Red@ 5.5.15-41         793                  27

 

Richard II

 

Duchess of Gloucester: Aseven vials of his previous blood@         1.2.9-36           850                  28

 

John of Gaunt: AThis royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle@ 2.1.31-68 855                  38

 

Richard: Atell sad stories of the death of kings@               3.2.144-77       864                  34       

 

Carlisle: AThe blood of English shall manure the ground@ 4.1.114-49       870                  36

 

Richard: AI give this heavy weight from off my head@      4.1.201-22       871                  22

 

Richard: AI wasted time and now doth time waste me@   5.5.1-66           877                  66

[or shorten this speech to]         5.5.31-66         878                  36

 

1 Henry IV

 

Prince Hal: ASo when this loose behavior I throw off@    1.2.195-217     893                  23

 

Prince Hal: AI will redeem all this on Percy=s head@                     3.129-59          910                  31

 

Henry V

 

Chorus as Prologue: AO for a Muse of fire@                               Prologue 1-34  979                  34

 

Chorus: ANow all the youth of England are on fire@                    2.Chorus.1-42  984                  42

 

Hostess: ANay sure, he=s not in hell@                                          2.3.9-26           989                  18

 

Henry: AOnce more unto the breech, dear friends@                     3.1.1-34           991                  34

 

Chorus: AA little touch of Harry in the night@                               4.Chorus.1-53  999                  53       

[may shorten]

 

Henry: AThis day is call=d the feast of Crispian@              4.3.18-67         1004                50

[may shorten]

 

[Although the following plays are not assigned this semester, you may still use these monologues if you wish.]

 

Measure for Measure

 

Angelo: Athis virtuous maid / Subdues me quite@             2.2.161-86       595                  26

 

Isabella: ATo whom should I complain@                          2.4.171-87       599                  17

 

The Tempest

 

Prospero: AOur revels now are ended@                          4.1.146-63       1680                18

 

Prospero: ABut this rough magic / I here abjure@             5.1.33-57         1682                25

 

Prospero: ANow my charms are all o=erthrown@             Epilogue 1-20   1685                20