Classical Monologues for Women

Marina Calderone

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781780010847
• Topic: Mezzi di comunicazione e arti performative
• Subtopic: Recitazione e provini

The Good Audition Guides: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills

Each Good Audition Guide contains a range of fresh monologues, all prefaced with a summary of the vital information you need to place the piece in context and to perform it to maximum effect in your own unique way.

Each volume also carries a user-friendly introduction on the whole process of auditioning.

Classical Monologues for Men contains 50 monologues drawn from classical plays throughout the ages and ranging across all of Western Theatre:

• Classical Greek and Roman
• Elizabethan and Jacobean
• French and Spanish Golden Age
• Restoration and Eighteenth Century
• Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

'sound practical advice for anyone attending an audition... so many of these extracts simply cry out to be performed... a source of inspiration for teachers and students alike... a must' Teaching Drama

Contents

INTRODUCTION

CLASSICAL GREEK AND ROMAN

Electra

from Electra by Sophocles (c. 415 BC)

Polyxena

from Hecuba by Euripides (c. 424 BC)

Creusa

from Ion by Euripides (c. 413 BC)

Ismene

from Thebans by Liz Lochhead (2003),
after Sophocles and Euripides (5th century BC)

Palaestra

from Rudens by Plautus (c. 200 BC)

ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN

Alice Arden

from Arden of Faversham by Anon (1592)

Margaret of Anjou

from Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare (1592)

Countess of Salisbury

from Edward III by William Shakespeare (1593)

Julia

from The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William
Shakespeare (1593)

Lady Anne

from Richard III by William Shakespeare (1594)

Adriana

from The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
(1595)

Lady Constance

from King John by William Shakespeare (1596)

Tamyra

from Bussy D’Ambois by George Chapman (1604)

Bellafront

from The Honest Whore by Thomas Dekker (1604)

Beatrice

from The Dutch Courtesan by John Marston (1604)

Crispinella

from The Dutch Courtesan by John Marston (1604)

Mother

from A Mad World, My Masters
by Thomas Middleton (1605)

Lucretia Borgia

from The Devil’s Charter by Barnabe Barnes (1607)

Hermione

from The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (1610)

Maria

from The Tamer Tamed by John Fletcher (1611)

Guiomar

from The Custom of the Country by John Fletcher (1619)

Hippolyta

from The Custom of the Country by John Fletcher (1619)

Beatrice

from The Changeling
by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley (1622)

Leonora

from The Devil’s Law-Case by John Webster (1623)

Lady Alworth

from A New Way to Pay Old Debts
by Philip Massinger (1625)

FRENCH AND SPANISH GOLDEN AGE

Casilda

from Peribanez by Lope de Vega (c. 1605-12)

Célimène

from The Misanthrope by Molière (1666)

Henriette

from The Learned Ladies by Molière (1672)

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Classical Greek and Roman
• Electra from Electra by Sophocles (c. 415 BC)
• Polyxena from Hecuba by Euripides (c. 424 BC)
• Creusa from Ion by Euripides (c. 413 BC)
• Ismene from Thebans by Liz Lochhead (2003), after Sophocles and Euripides (5th century BC)
• Palaestra from Rudens by Plautus (c. 200 BC)
• Elizabethan and Jacobean
• Alice Arden from Arden of Faversham by Anon (1592)
• Margaret of Anjou from Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare (1592)
• Countess of Salisbury from Edward III by William Shakespeare (1593)
• Julia from The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (1593)
• Lady Anne from Richard III by William Shakespeare (1594)
• Adriana from The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (1595)
• Lady Constance from King John by William Shakespeare (1596)
• Tamyra from Bussy D’Ambois by George Chapman (1604)
• Bellafront from The Honest Whore by Thomas Dekker (1604)
• Beatrice from The Dutch Courtesan by John Marston (1604)
• Crispinella from The Dutch Courtesan by John Marston (1604)
• Mother from A Mad World, My Masters by Thomas Middleton (1605)
• Lucretia Borgia from The Devil’s Charter by Barnabe Barnes (1607)
• Hermione from The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (1610)
• Maria from The Tamer Tamed by John Fletcher (1611)
• Guiomar from The Custom of the Country by John Fletcher (1619)
• Hippolyta from The Custom of the Country by John Fletcher (1619)
• Beatrice from The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley (1622)
• Leonora from The Devil’s Law-Case by John Webster (1623)
• Lady Alworth from A New Way to Pay Old Debts by Philip Massinger (1625)
• French and Spanish Golden Age
• Casilda from Peribanez by Lope de Vega (c. 1605-12)
• Célimène from The Misanthrope by Molière (1666)
• Henriette from The Learned Ladies by Molière (1672)
• Phedra from Phedra by Jean Racine (1677)
• Restoration and Eighteenth Century
• Margery from The Country Wife by William Wycherley (1675)
• Charlotte from She Ventures, and He Wins by Ariadne (1695)
• Bassima from The Royal Mischief by Delariviere Manley (1696)
• Lamira from The Fatal Friendship by Catherine Trotter (1698)
• Jane from The Tragedy of Jane Shore by Nicholas Rowe (1714)
• Millwood from The London Merchant by George Lillo (1731)
• Miss Stirling from The Clandestine Marriage by David Garrick/George Coleman (1766)
• Lydia Languish from The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1775)
• Julia from The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1775)
• Mrs Dangle from The Critic by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1779)
• Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
• Mrs Tiffany from Fashion, or Life in New York by Anna Cora Mowatt (1845)
• Mrs Alving from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (1881)
• Miss Julie from Miss Julie by August Strindberg (1888)
• Madame X from The Stronger by August Strindberg (1889)
• Jean from Alan’s Wife by Florence Bell and Elizabeth Robins (1893)
• Mrs Cheveley from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (1895)
• Yelena from Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (1897)
• Alice from The Dance of Death, Part Two by August Strindberg (1901)
• Margaret from Fanny’s First Play by George Bernard Shaw (1911)
• Orinthia from The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw (1929)
• Bride from Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca (1933)
• Acknowledgements and Thanks
• About the Author
• Copyright Information