10 Great Shakespearean Monologues for Men helps actors in need of classical material for their next theatre audition. 5 comedy/5 tragedy.

10 Great Shakespearean Monologues for Men

1. Antony and Cleopatra

Character: ANTONY

Location: Act IV, sc. 12

Genre: Tragedy

First line: This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me:

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2. Richard II

Character: MOWBRAY

Location: Act I, sc. 1

Genre: Historical

First Line: Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal:

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3. Hamlet

Character: HAMLET

Location: Act I, sc. 2

Genre: Tragedy

First Line: O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!

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4. Henry V

Character: KING HENRY

Location: Act II, sc. 2

Genre: Historical

First line: God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence.

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5. Julius Caesar

Character: CASSIUS

Location: Act I, sc. 2

Genre: Historical

First Line: Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet, I see, Thy honourable metal may be wrought

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6. The Winter’s Tale

Character: CAMILLO

Location: Act I, sc. 2

Genre: Comedy

First Line: My gracious lord, I may be negligent, foolish and fearful;

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7. The Winter’s Tale

Character: ANTIGONUS

Location: Act III, sc. 3

Genre: Comedy

First Line: Come, poor babe: I have heard, but not believed, the spirits o’ the dead May walk again:

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8. Two Gentleman of Verona

Character: PROTEUS

Location: Act III, sc. 3

Genre: Comedy

First Line: My gracious lord, that which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal;

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9. Two Gentleman of Verona

Character: LANCE

Location: Act III, sc. 3

Genre: Comedy

First Line: Nay, ’twill be this hour ere I have done weeping; all the kind of the Launces have this very fault.

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10. The Tempest

Character: FERDINAND

Location: Act III, sc. 1

Genre: Comedy

First Line: There be some sports are painful, and their labour Delight in them sets off:

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