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Theatre: Monologues

Guide to resources in the performing arts

Monologues

Suggested sites for finding monologues on the web for free:

Monologue Archive
An assortment of public domain monologues taken from classic plays organized by gender and type.
Shakespeare's Monologues
A list of Shakespearean monologues categorized alphabetically by comedy, history and tragedy.
Theatre History: Monologues
List of monologues. Some are freely available and some are for purchase.
The Monologue Database
The monologue database serves the singular purpose of organizing monologues on the web and allowing the internet community to engage and discuss them amongst each other.

Selected Women's Monologues at VWU

The Best Women's Stage Monologues and Scenes 2012 by Lawrence Harbison (Editor)
Call Number: PN2080 .B46 2012

ISBN: 1575257904

Publication Date: 2012
The Best Women's Stage Monologues and Scenes by Lawrence Harbison (Editor)
Call Number: PN2080 .B46 2012

ISBN: 1575257815

Publication Date: 2012
Young Women's Monologs from Contemporary Plays by Gerald Lee Ratliff
Call Number: PN2080 .Y69 2004

ISBN: 1566080975

Publication Date: 2004-09-01

A collection of 94 monologues for women from recently produced contemporary plays for auditions, contests, workshops and acting classes.
Shakespeare's Monologues for Women by William Shakespeare; Dick Dotterer
Call Number: PR2768 .D57 1990

ISBN: 0940669129

Publication Date: 1990-04-01

A ready collection of monologues for women from the works of William Shakespeare that have been discriminately complied for maximum dramatic impact. With detailed, informative introduction.

Selected Collections of Monologues at VWU

Monologues from the Classics by Roger Karshner (Editor)
Call Number: PN4305.M6 M66 1993

ISBN: 0961179279

Publication Date: 1986-05-01

Shakespeare, Marlowe and others ... comedic-dramatic
Play the Scene by Michael Schulman; Eva Mekler
Call Number: PN2080 .P59 2004

ISBN: 9780312318796

Publication Date: 2004-12-07

A collection of the greatest scenes and monologues from Elizabethan to Tony Award-winning plays; comprehensive anthology spans over five hundred years of theatre.
One on One by Rebecca Dunn Jaroff (Editor); Bob Shuman (Editor); Joyce E. Henry
Call Number: PN2080. O58 2008

ISBN: 9781557837011

Publication Date: 2008-10-01

(Applause Acting Series). Covering the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and experimental theatre since 2000, One on One challenges actors to explore the inner self, develop skill and artistry for auditions, and deliver a knockout onstage performance. These monologues sometimes comic, sometimes serious, and often both tackle issues ranging from race, class, gender, relationships and romance to coming of age, mortality, 9/11, and the Iraq war.
The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 1990 by Jocelyn A. Beard (Editor)
Call Number: PN2080.B45 1991

ISBN: 0962272221

Publication Date: 1991-01-01

51 great audition pieces for men from the 1990 theatrical season.