15 Best Shakespeare Monologues for Auditions
Are you deep in your search for a Shakespeare monologue? Here’s 15 powerful shakespeare monologues for your next classical audition.
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1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Character: PUCK
Location: Act II, sc. 1
Genre: Comedy
First line: Thou speak’st aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night.
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2. Two Gentleman of Verona
Character: JULIA
Location: Act IV, sc. 4
Genre: Comedy
First line: How many women would do such a message?
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3. The Winter’s Tale
Character: HERMIONE
Location: Act III, sc. 2
Genre: Comedy
First Line: Sir, spare your threats: The bug which you would fright me with I seek.
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4. The Tempest
Character: ARIEL
Location: Act III, sc. 3
Genre: Comedy
First Line: You are three men of sin, whom Destiny, That hath to instrument this lower world And what is in’t, the never-surfeited sea Hath caused to belch up you;
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5. Much Ado About Nothing
Character: BEATRICE
Location: Act III, sc. 1
Genre: Comedy
First Line: What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?
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6. Romeo and Juliet
Character: JULIET
Location: Act II, sc. 2
Genre: Tragedy
First Line: O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
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7. Hamlet
Character: OPHELIA
Location: Act III, sc. 1
Genre: Tragedy
First Line: O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!
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8. King Lear
Character: EDMUND
Location: Act I, sc. 2
Genre: Tragedy
First Line: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,–o
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9. Macbeth
Character: LADY MACBETH
Location: Act I, sc. 5
Genre: Tragedy
First Line: They met me in the day of success:
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10. Julius Caesar
Character: ANTONY
Location: Act II, sc. 2
Genre: Tragedy
First Line: O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?
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11. Henry V
Character: MONTJOY
Location: Act III, sc. 6
Genre: Historical
First Line: Thus says my king: Say thou to Harry of England:
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12. Richard II
Character: DUCHESS
Location: Act II, sc. 2
Genre: Historical
First Line: Yet one word more: grief boundeth where it falls,
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13. Richard III
Character: LADY ANNE
Location: Act I, sc. 2
Genre: Historical
First Line: Set down, set down your honourable load,
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14. King John
Character: CONSTANCE
Location: Act III, sc. 1
Genre: Historical
First Line: If thou, that bid’st me be content, wert grim,
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15. Henry IV
Character: KING HENRY
Location: Act III, sc. 2
Genre: Historical
First Line: God pardon thee! yet let me wonder, Harry,
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