Research Guides: Theatre: Monologues

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.

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.

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.