List of Monologues and Soliloquies from Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
Act II Scene I
Viola: “I left nothing with her; what means this lady?”
Henry the Fifth
Act V Scene III
Henry: King Henry’s Saint Crispian speech.
The Tragedy of Richard the Third
Act I Scene I
Richard: “Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this Sun of York.”
Hamlet
Act II Scene I
Ophelia: “He took me by the wrist and held me hard,”
Hamlet
Act III Scene II
Hamlet: “Speak the speech, I pray you,”
Hamlet
Act I Scene II
Claudius: “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death the memory be green,”
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Act 1 Scene V
Lady Macbeth: “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promised.”
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Act I Scene III
Porter: “Here’s a knocking indeed!”
Othello
Act V Scene II
Othello: “It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,”
