Monday, May 23, 2005

Female Shakespearean monologues

I need to find a 2 minute monologue for Shakespeare class, so I've been looking through my book of the complete works. Sadly, there's an annoying abundance of powerful male monologues, and a distinct lack of good female ones. There are, of course, a handful of really good ones, like Lady Macbeth's 'Unsex me now' and Juliet's 'Gallop a pace you fiery footed steeds'. But compared to the monologues the men in his plays speak, us women seem to be slighted. Of course, the parts weren't written for women, since the actors were all men, but Shakespeare seems to have spurned his female characters of the really meaty emotional stuff. I'm thinking of doing Juliet's well-known 'Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?' just to be obstinate.

Bah.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Try queen margaret is richard III.

http://www.shakespeare-monologues.org/

She's pretty damn powerful.

2:41 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

in* :)

2:42 p.m.  
Blogger SilentLaughter said...

Queen Margaret's too old for me...

9:30 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about Portia from Julius Caesar or Katherine from The Taming of the Shrew

4:30 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.shakespeare-monologues.org/womensmonos.htm
:D

9:18 a.m.  

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