Monologues & Scenes by William Shakespeare
Browse 111 audition scenes written by William Shakespeare — each with character context, director's notes and instant PDF download.
- Act II, Scene 2 — The Balcony Scene
- Act II, Scene 3 — Benedick's Soliloquy
- Act V, Scene 2 — Lewis the Dauphin's Defiance
- Get Thee to a Nunnery
- Act II, Scene 2 — The Balcony Scene
- Act I, Scene 4 — Queen Mab Speech
- Hamlet's Advice to the Players
- Act IV, Scene 1 — The Proposal and the Challenge
- Act I, Scene 7 — The Unmaking of a Man
- To Be, Or Not To Be
- Juliet's Anticipation
- Shylock's 'Hath Not a Jew Eyes?' Monologue
- Act I, Scene 1 — Bassanio's Debt and Portia
- Act I, Scene 2 — Portia's Suitors
- Act II, Scene 2 — Viola's Soliloquy
- Act II, Scene 1 — Sebastian's Revelation
- Act III, Scene 1 — The Fool's Wit & Act II, Scene 1 & 2 — Sebastian and Viola's Dilemmas
- Act I, Scene 4 — Orsino and Cesario
- Act I, Scene 3 — Sir Toby and Maria
- Act I, Scene 2 — Viola's Arrival in Illyria
- Iago Manipulates Roderigo
- ACT 1, Scene 2
- ACT 1, Scene 1
- Lear banishes Kent
- Lear disowns Cordelia
- Romeo and Benvolio discuss Rosaline
- Romeo and Benvolio discuss love
- Ariel's Freedom and Caliban's Curse
- Prospero and Ariel: The Tempest's Aftermath
- Prospero and Miranda on the Island
- Juliet's Impatience
- Hamlet's Soliloquy: How All Occasions
- Hermione's Defense
- Act IV Scene 3 — The Winter's Tale
- Act V, Scene 1 — Falstaff's Catechism on Honour
- Bottom's Dream
- Caliban's Curse
- Cleopatra's Immortal Longings
- Edmund's Declaration of Nature
- Cleopatra's Barge
- Hamlet's Soliloquy: O that this too too solid flesh would melt
- Isabella's Plea for Mercy
- Lear's Awakening and Reconciliation
- Malvolio's Delusion
- Mark Antony's Funeral Oration
- Oberon's Enchantment Plan
- The Quality of Mercy
- Prince Hal's Soliloquy on Reformation
- Prospero's Renunciation of Magic
- Richard's Seduction of Lady Anne
- Richard's Triumph and Self-Deception
- Rosalind's Epilogue
- Love is a Madness
- Titania's Accusation of Discord
- Hamlet's Soliloquy: O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
- Act III, Scene 1 — Hath Not a Jew Eyes?
- Act III, Scene 2 — The Isle is Full of Noises
- St. Crispin's Day Speech
- Iago's Soliloquy: The Seeds of Malice
- Lady Macbeth's Sleepwalking Confession