Monologues Unpacked
Working on a Shakespeare monologue? Here’s our database of Shakespearean monologues that we’ve broken down, translated and explained. We’ve done all the hard work for you!
Get stuck into many of Shakespeare’s iconic monologues and learn how to truly bring them to life. These pages are all broken down by professional actors, who in many cases have played the roles. The monologues unpacked team includes Damien Strouthos, Jess Tovey and Andrew Hearle.
Lady Macbeth is considered one of Shakespeare’s greatest antiheroes, from one of Shakespeare’s great tragedies, and for good reason. When it comes to the kind of moral ambiguity that Shakespeare was so well known for,...
When we think of Hamlet we often think of misery, melancholy, death, dismay and destruction. While all of those things certainly are quite high on the billing, if we look around there’s actually quite a...
Often overlooked both in the plays in which they live, and in real life are Shakespeare’s servants. Adam is senior servant to the De Boys family in Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy, As You Like It. While...
Though hidden in one of Shakespeare’s least performed plays, Constance is a character all actors wishing to tackle high stakes emotional text should seek to perform. And her speech in Act 3, scene 4, has...
One of As You Like Its most loved characters Phebe presents an interesting problem. Originally written to be the punchline to a joke, in a more modern context she becomes rather sympathetic. Phebe is a...
Ah, Pyramus. The likes of Romeo, Hamlet and Coriolanus have nothing on you when it comes to the deepest of tragedies which you suffer at the hands of fate. Cruelty was a dish which was...
Though some of Shakespeare can be hard to access or seemingly old-fashioned and irrelevant to our needs and concerns today, many of his plays, characters and words are so relevant and applicable to our society...
If you’re looking for a highly physical, highly comical, and highly pastoral prose monologue for your next audition, then look no further my friends. Today we’re going to take a look at Touchstone’s final speech...
Ah, Nicholas Bottom. The Brad Pitt of his time. Also the Meryl Streep of his time. While he is busy being Brad and Meryl he’s also busy being the Phillip Seymour-Hoffman, the Daniel Day Lewis,...
Let’s take a look at one of Rosalind’s monologues from As You Like It. Rosalind is a great character to explore and only gets more fun throughout the play as she takes full flight. Rosalind...