10 Great Shakespearean Monologues for Women
10 Great Shakespearean Monologues for Women helps the actress find some of the best female Shakespeare monologues for theatre auditions.
10 Great Shakespearean Monologues for Women
1. Othello
Character: DESDEMONA
Location: Act I, sc. 3
Genre: Drama
First line: My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty:
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2. Antony and Cleopatra
Character: CLEOPATRA
Location: Act V, sc. 2
Genre: Drama
First line: Sir, I will eat no meat, I’ll not drink, sir;
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3. Hamlet
Character: QUEEN GERTRUDE
Location: Act IV, sc. 7
Genre: Drama
First line: There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
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4. Julius Caesar
Character: PORTIA
Location: Act II, sc. 1
Genre: Tragedy
First Line: Nor for yours neither. You’ve ungently, Brutus, Stole from my bed:
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5. King Lear
Character: CORDELIA
Location: Act I, sc. 1
Genre: Tragedy
First Line: Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth:
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6. Two Gentleman of Verona
Character: SILVIA
Location: Act IV, sc. 3
Genre: Comedy
First Line: O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman–
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7. All’s Well That Ends Well
Character: HELENA
Location: Act I, sc. 1
Genre: Comedy
First Line: Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven:
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8. The Tempest
Character: ARIEL
Location: Act III, sc. 3
Genre: Comedy
First Line: You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
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9. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Character: TITANIA
Location: Act II, sc. 1
Genre: Comedy
First Line: Set your heart at rest: The fairy land buys not the child of me.
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10. The Winter’s Tale
Character: PERDITA
Location: Act IV, sc. 6
Genre: Comedy
First Line: You’d be so lean, that blasts of January Would blow you through and through.
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