Shakespeare's Monologues
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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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Monologue of the Day
Cassius · Julius Caesar
“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world”
Act 1, Scene 2, line 143 · Verse
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