Speak the Speech! Shakespeare's Monologues Illuminated

Name: Speak the Speech! Shakespeare's Monologues Illuminated
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ISBN: 9780571211227

ISBN-10: 0571211224

ISBN-13: 9780571211227

Edition: 2002

Authors: Rhona Silverbush, Sami Plotkin

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The most comprehensive sourcebook of Shakespeare's monologues ever available in one volume. A detailed guide to approaching Shakespearean text, Speak the Speech! contains everything an actor needs to select and prepare a Shakespeare monologue for classwork, auditions, or performance. Included herein are over 150 monologues. Each one is placed in context with a brief introduction, is carefully punctuated in the manner that best illustrates its meaning, and is painstakingly and thoroughly annotated. Each is also accompanied by commentary that will spark the actor's imagination by exploring how the interrelationship of meter and the choice of words and sounds yields clues to character and…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/18/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1092
Size: 6.97" wide x 9.19" long x 1.84" tall
Weight: 3.234
Language: English



Prologue: Why We Wrote This Book


Acknowledgments


The Play's the Thing Choosing a Monologue


What is This Stuff?


This Earth, This Realm, This England: Shakespeare's Life and Times


The Lowdown on Punctuation, Spelling, Annotation, Commentary, and Line Numbering


Monologues


The Histories


King John


Philip the Bastard (Act I, Scene i)


Philip the Bastard (Act II, Scene i)


Constance (Act III, Scene i)


Constance (Act III, Scene iv)


Constance (Act III, Scene iv)


Lewis (Act V, Scene ii)


Philip the Bastard (Act V, Scene ii)


Richard II


Duchess of Gloucester (Act I, Scene ii)


John of Gaunt (Act II, Scene i)


King Richard (Act III, Scene ii)


King Richard (Act III, Scene ii)


Bishop of Carlisle (Act IV, Scene i)


Henry IV, Part One


Hotspur (Act I, Scene iii)


Hotspur (Act II, Scene iii)


Falstaff (Act V, Scene i)


Henry IV, Part Two


Mistress Quickly (Act II, Scene i)


Lady Percy (Act II, Scene iii)


King Henry IV (Act III, Scene i)


Falstaff (Act IV, Scene iii)


Prince Hal (Act IV, Scene v)


Henry V


Chorus (Prologue)


King Henry V (Act I, Scene ii)


King Henry V (Act IV, Scene iii)


King Henry V (Act V, Scene ii)


Henry VI, Part One


Joan la Pucelle (Act V, Scene iii)


Henry VI, Part Two


Queen Margaret (Act I, Scene iii)


Eleanor (Act II, Scene iv)


Henry VI, Part Three


Queen Margaret (Act I, Scene iv)


Richard, Duke of York (Act I, Scene iv)


King Henry VI (Act II, Scene v)


Richard III


Richard (Act I, Scene i)


Lady Anne (Act I, Scene ii)


Richard (Act I, Scene ii)


King Edward IV (Act II, Scene i)


Lady Anne (Act IV, Scene i)


Margaret (Act IV, Scene iv)


King Richard (Act V, Scene iii)


Bottom (Act IV, Scene i)


Snug (Act V, Scene i)


Much Ado About Nothing


Benedick (Act II, Scene iii)


Benedick (Act II, Scene iii)


The Taming of the Shrew


Petruchio (Act IV, Scene i)


Twelfth Night


Orsino (Act I, Scene i)


Viola (Act II, Scene ii)


Malvolio (Act II, Scene v)


Olivia (Act III, Scene i)


The Two Gentlemen of Verona


Julia (Act I, Scene ii)


Launce (Act II, Scene iii)


Launce (Act IV, Scene iv)


Julia (Act IV, Scene iv)


The Problem Plays


All's Well that Ends Well


Helena (Act III, Scene ii)


Measure for Measure


Isabella (Act II, Scene ii)


Claudio (Act III, Scene i)


Troilus and Cressida


Ulysses (Act I, Scene iii)


Cressida (Act III, Scene ii)


The Tragedies


Antony and Cleopatra


Cleopatra (Act I, Scene v)


Enobarbus (Act II, Scene ii)


Cleopatra (Act IV, Scene xv)


Cleopatra (Act V, Scene ii)


Cleopatra (Act V, Scene ii)


Cleopatra (Act V, Scene ii)


Coriolanus


Menenius (Act II, Scene i)


Coriolanus (Act IV, Scene v)


Aufidius (Act IV, Scene v)


Volumnia (Act V, Scene iii)


Hamlet


Hamlet (Act I, Scene ii)


Polonius (Act I, Scene iii)


Ophelia (Act II, Scene i)


Polonius (Act II, Scene ii)


Hamlet (Act II, Scene ii)


Hamlet (Act III, Scene i)


Ophelia (Act III, Scene i)


Hamlet (Act III, Scene ii)


King Claudius (Act III, Scene iii)


Hamlet (Act III, Scene iii)


Gertrude (Act IV, Scene vii)


Julius Caesar


Cassius (Act I, Scene ii)


Brutus (Act II, Scene i)


Portia (Act II, Scene i)


Calphurnia (Act II, Scene ii)


Antony (Act III, Scene i)


Brutus (Act III, Scene ii)


Antony (Act III, Scene ii)


Antony (Act III, Scene ii)


King Lear


Edmund (Act I, Scene ii)


Edmund (Act I, Scene ii)


Goneril (Act I, Scene iv)


King Lear (Act II, Scene iv)


King Lear (Act III, Scene ii)


King Lear (Act III, Scene iv)


Macbeth


Lady Macbeth (Act I, Scene v)


Lady Macbeth (Act I, Scene v)


Macbeth (Act I, Scene vii)


Lady Macbeth (Act I, Scene vii)


Macbeth (Act II, Scene i)


Porter (Act II, Scene iii)


Macbeth (Act III, Scene i)


Othello


Iago (Act I, Scene i)


Othello (Act I, Scene iii)


Iago (Act I, Scene iii)


Emilia (Act IV, Scene iii)


Romeo and Juliet


Nurse (Act I, Scene iii)


Mercutio (Act I, Scene iv)


Mercutio (Act II, Scene i)


Romeo (Act II, Scene ii)


Juliet (Act II, Scene ii)


Juliet (Act II, Scene ii)


Juliet (Act II, Scene v)


Juliet (Act II, Scene ii)


Juliet (Act III, Scene ii)


Romeo (Act III, Scene iii)


Friar Lawrence (Act III, Scene iii)


Lord Capulet (Act III, Scene v)


Juliet (Act IV, Scene iii)


Timon of Athens


Timon (Act IV, Scene iii)


Titus Andronicus


Titus Andronicus (Act III, Scene ii)


Aaron (Act IV, Scene ii)


The Romances


Cymbeline


Iachimo (Act II, Scene ii)


Imogen (Act III, Scene ii)


Imogen (Act III, Scene vi)


Pericles


Dionyza (Act IV, Scene vi)


The Tempest


Ariel (Act I, Scene ii)


Trinculo (Act II, Scene ii)


Caliban (Act III, Scene ii)


Prospero (Act IV, Scene i)


Prospero (Act V, Scene i)


The Winter's Tale


Hermione (Act III, Scene ii)


Paulina (Act III, Scene ii)


Shepherd (Act III, Scene iii)


Synopses


The Histories


King John


Richard II


Henry IV, Part One


Henry IV, Part Two


Henry V


Henry VI, Part One


Henry VI, Part Two


Henry VI, Part Three


Richard III


Henry VIII


The Comedies


As You Like It


The Comedy of Errors


Love's Labour's Lost


The Merchant of Venice


The Merry Wives of Windsor


A Midsummer Night's Dream


Much Ado About Nothing


The Taming of the Shrew


Twelfth Night


The Two Gentlemen of Verona


The Problem Plays


All's Well that Ends Well


Measure for Measure


Troilus and Cressida


The Tragedies


Antony and Cleopatra


Coriolanus


Hamlet


Julius Caesar


King Lear


Macbeth


Othello


Romeo and Juliet


Timon of Athens


Titus Andronicus


The Romances


Cymbeline


Pericles


The Tempest


The Winter's Tale


Glossary of Common Archaic Words, Verb Forms, Elisions, and Contractions


Index to the Monologues