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



Built for actors.
Used by everyone.

The Men
The Women

The links above lead to a complete list of the plays categorized alphabetically by comedy, history and tragedy.  Each entry includes the character's name, the first line of the speech, is marked as verse or prose and gives the location within the play where the monologue is found.   Each entry includes a link to the full text of the scene in which the monologue is found. Another link for each entry points to a pdf file of each monologue, double-spaced for scansion, transcription and ready to print