Shakespeare's Monologues

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

Portrait from
cover of First Folio.
Click to browse monologues for all genders.

Built for actors.
Used by everyone.

The links above lead to a complete list of Shakespeare's Monologues, categorized by comedy, history, and tragedy, then organized by play. Browse and/or search for monologues. Each monologue includes the character's name, the act, scene & line number, the first line of the speech, is noted as verse or prose, and includes the full text of the monologue. Each includes a link to the full scene. You can download each monologue for printing, already double-spaced for scansion and transcription (PDFs are provided courtesy of Tee Quillin.)

New: Summaries of plays and scenes (look for the

icon), and paraphrasing of each monologue in modern English (look for the

icon at the end of each monologue)!

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