Where can i find a Shakespeare sililoquy?

Question

I need one to perform for my Drama class. it can be any length, really. tragedy would be awesome. any suggestions/know where i can find one?
thanx!

Answer 1

As You Like It, 2,7:

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Answer 2

look in Taming of the Shrew. Kate has a couple of good ones. Also another great comedy to search is Midsummer Nights Dream. Sorry, I don't have my big book o' Shakespeare on me or I would give you act and scene info. I did a monologue when I was in HS drama from Othello. (a Desdemona piece). At the moment all I can remember is that she was pleading to Iago for help with Othello. (I'll try to come back later with the act and scenes) I will place only female characters, since from your picture I gather you are female.

***EDIT***
I am placing character, act & scene, play, and first line
All right, here are some of the monologues/ soloiloquies
1. Titania (Act 2.1 Midsummer Nights Dream "These are the forgeries of jealousy")
2. Helena (Act 3.2 Midsummer "Lo, she is one of this confederacy")
3. Puck {can be male or female} (Act 5.1 Midsummer "If we shadows have offended")
4. Desdemona (Act 4.2 Othello "O good Iago, What shall I do to win my lord again?")

Answer 3

As a girl, I would recommend either Romeo and Juliet as either Juliet, in the balcony scene or the parting scene OR the nurse has a great speech when she is telling Romeo where to meet Juliet. Or Lady MacBeth. If you don't mind giving a boy's speech, in my opinion, Mercutio's speech to Romeo write before the party "Oh, that I see Queen Mab has been with you" rocks.

Answer 4

Read over the major tragedies (Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello); you'll find plenty of excellent soliloquies.

Answer 5

I like Iago's soliloquy in Act 2 Scene 3 of Othello. Iago is a wonderful character to play (excuse the pun) because he is a jealous, dangerous villain with a distorted sense of reality and an incredible mastery and knowledge of manipulation. ; )

the Soliloquy takes place in Act 2, scene 3, lines 356-382 of Othello.

And what's he, then, that says I play the villain,
When this advice is free I give and honest,
Probal to thinking, and indeed the course
To win the Moor again? For 'tis most easy
Th' inclining Desdemona to subdue
In any honest suit. She's framed as fruitful
As the free elements. And then for her
To win the Moor-- to renounce his baptism,
All seals and symbols of redeemed sin--
His soul is so enfettered to her love
that she may make, unmake, do what she list,
Even as her appetite shall play the god
With his weak function. How am I then a villain
To counsel Cassio to this parallel course
Directly to his good? Divinity of hell!
When devils will the blackest sins put on,
they do suggest at first with heavenly shows,
As I do now. For whiles this honest fool
Plies Desdemona to repair his fortune,
And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor,
I'll pour this pestilence into his ear:
that she repeals him for her body's lust;
And by how much she strives to do him good,
She shall undo her credit with the Moor.
So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh them all.

To put everything in context, this soliloquy reveals Iago's plan to make Othello (the Moor) hate his wife (Desdemona) by taking her purity and using it to control every one of Othello's actions.

Answer 6

There are two that you need. They are both from Hamlet: One is called, "To Be or Not to Be..." The other is called "So oft it happens in particular men..." I recommend that you choose the second. "The road less traveled by..." And you will deliver a dynamite performance in which your Hamlet discovers himself!

Answer 7

Hamlet. Very famous. If you're a girl, you may want to try Juliet's balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet.

Answer 8

The Hamlet, "To be or not to be" is the most famous.