Shakespeare's Monologues
Making it easier to find monologues since 1997

The Men
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Portrait from cover of First Folio

Built for actors.
Used by everyone.


The links above lead to a complete list of Shakespeare's Monologues. All of them. The monologues are organized by play, categorized by comedy, history and tragedy. You can browse and/or search. Each monologue entry includes the character's name, the first line of the speech, whether it is verse or prose, and shows the act, scene & line number. Each entry provides a link to the full text of the scene. You can download each monologue for printing, already double-spaced for scansion and transcription. The PDFs are provided courtesy The Inexplicable Dumb Show (formerly The Mirror Up To Nature.)
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