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Here are a few monologues from Shakespeare's plays that you can prepare:

1. Hamlet: Hamlet
"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles..."

2. Hamlet - Hamlet:
“O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That from her working all his visage wann’d,
Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect,
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing!”

3. Romeo and Juliet: Romeo


"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief..."

4. Macbeth: Macbeth
"Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation..."

5. Macbeth - Lady Macbeth:


"Out, damned spot! out, I say!—One; two: why, then,
'tis time to do't.—Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie!
A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it,
when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would
have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him."

6. As You Like It: Jaques


"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..."
7. A Midsummer Night's Dream: Puck
"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear..."

8. Othello: Iago
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger..."

9. Julius Caesar: Mark Antony


"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones..."

10. The Merchant of Venice: Portia


"The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes..."

11. Henry V - Henry V:


"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger..."

12. Richard III - Richard III:


"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried..."

13. King Lear - King Lear:


"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once..."

14. Twelfth Night - Viola:


"I left no ring with her. What means this lady?
Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her!
She made good view of me; indeed, so much
That sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue,
For she did speak in starts distractedly.
She loves me, sure; the cunning of her passion
Invites me in this churlish messenger..."

15. Henry V - King Henry V:


"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger..."

16. Richard II - Richard II:


"I have been studying how I may compare
This prison where I live unto the world:
And for because the world is populous
And here is not a creature but myself,
I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out..."
17. The Tempest - Prospero:
"Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep..."

18. The Winter's Tale - Leontes:


"Is whispering nothing?
Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses?
Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career
Of laughter with a sigh?—a note infallible
Of breaking honesty—horsing foot on foot?
Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift?
Hours, minutes? noon, midnight? and all eyes
Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only,
That would unseen be wicked? is this nothing?
Why, then the world and all that's in't is nothing;
The covering sky is nothing; Bohemia nothing;
My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings,
If this be nothing."

Short Monologues
1. Hamlet - Hamlet:
"To be, or not to be: that is the question."

2. Macbeth - Macbeth:
"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour
upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing."

3. Othello - Othello:
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on."

4. A Midsummer Night's Dream - Puck:


"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended."

5. As You Like It - Jaques:


"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players."

6. Henry V - Henry V:
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more."

7. Richard III - Richard III:


"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York."

8. The Tempest - Ariel:


"Where the bee sucks, there suck I;
In a cowslip's bell I lie:
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough."

9. The Winter's Tale - Perdita:


"Sir, it is a mystery."

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