A monologue from the play by Euripides ALCESTIS (recovering herself)Admetus, you see the things I suffer; and now before I die I mean to tell you what I wish. To show you honour and-at the cost of my life-that you may still behold the light, I die; and yet I might have lived and wedded […]
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A monologue from the play by Euripides MEDEA Women of Corinth, I am come to showMy face, lest ye despise me. For I knowSome heads stand high and fail not, even at nightAlone—far less like this, in all men’s sight:And we, who study not our wayfaringsBut feel and cry—Oh we are drifting things,And evil! For
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A monologue from the play by Euripides CASSANDRA O Mother, fill mine hair with happy flowers,And speed me forth. Yea, if my spirit cowers,Drive me with wrath! So liveth Loxias,A bloodier bride than ever Helen wasGo I to Agamemnon, Lord most highOf Hellas! . . . I shall kill him, mother; IShall kill him, and
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24 Best Classical Dramatic Monologues For Women 1. Oedipus the King A monologue from the play by Sophocles JOCASTA – 1 Why should a mortal man, the sport of chance,With no assured foreknowledge, be afraid?Best live a careless life from hand to mouth.This wedlock with thy mother fear not thou.How oft it chances that in
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A monologue from the play by Euripides NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Plays of Euripides in English, vol. ii. Trans. Shelley Dean Milman. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1922. ADMETUS My friends, I deem the fortune of my wifeHappier than mine, though otherwise it seems;For never more shall sorrow touch her breast,And she
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22 Best Classical Dramatic Monologues For Men 1. Alcestis A monologue from the play by Euripides NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Plays of Euripides in English, vol. ii. Trans. Shelley Dean Milman. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1922. ADMETUS My friends, I deem the fortune of my wifeHappier than mine, though otherwise it
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118 Dramatic Monologues For Males From Published Plays, Shakespeare Plays, Movies, & TV Shows 20 Best Contemporary Dramatic Monologues For Men From Plays 1. The Pillowman A monologue from the play by Martin McDonagh Ariel Oh, really? Well, y’know, I’ll tell you what there is about me. There is an overwhelming, and there is an
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The Comedy and Tragedy symbol dates back to Greek Mythology symbol as the sock and buskin. The masks function as a critical tool for an examination of character and performer action in all periods of theatre, including the most recent. The Masks Convention The masks developed as a convention for the projection of action in
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A monologue from the play by Euripides NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Plays of Euripides in English, vol. ii. Trans. Shelley Dean Milman. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1922. IPHIS: Why was this privilege, alas! deniedTo mortals, twice to flourish in the bloomOf youth, and for a second time grow old?For in our houses,
A monologue from the play by Euripides NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Plays of Euripides in English, vol. ii. Trans. Shelley Dean Milman. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1922. OLD MAN: My honoured mistress (for with you I grieve),We are betrayed by your perfidious lord,Wronged by premeditated fraud, and castForth from Erectheus’ house: I
