Classical Monologues for Women

Marina Calderone

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781780010847
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Acting & Auditioning

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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