15 Best Shakespeare Monologues for Auditions
15 Best Shakespeare Monologues for Auditions provides artists with 15 from the Bard for your next classical monologue audition.
15 Best Shakespeare Monologues for Auditions
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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