Classical monologues for women

Classical monologues for women /

"As an actor at any level - from school exam to professional casting - you are likely to be called upon to perform one or more audition pieces - often a 'classical' piece is specified. A great deal will depend on your coming up with something fresh that is suited both to your particul...

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Other Authors: Caldarone, Marina
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Nick Hern Books, 2006.
Series:Good audition guides
Subjects:
Monologues.
Acting > Auditions.
Monologues (Drama)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Classical Greek and Roman
  • Electra from Electra / Sophocles (c. 415 BC)
  • Polyxena from Hecuba / Euripides (c. 424 BC)
  • Creusa from Ion / Euripides (c. 413 BC)
  • Ismene from Thebans / Liz Lochhead (2003) after Sophocles and Euripides (5th century BC)
  • Palaestra from Rudens / Plautus (c. 200 BC)
  • Elizabethan and Jacobean
  • Alice Arden from Arden of Faversham / Anon (1592)
  • Margaret of Anjou from Henry III / William Shakespeare (1593)
  • Julia from The two gentlemen of Verona / William Shakespeare (1593)
  • Lady Anne from Richard III / William Shakespeare (1594)
  • Adriana from The comedy of errors / William Shakespeare (1595)
  • Lady Constance from King John / William Shakespeare (1596)
  • Tamyra from Bussy D'Ambois / George Chapman (1604)
  • Bellafront from The honest whore / Thomas Dekker (1604)
  • Beatrice from The Dutch courtesan / John Marston (1604)
  • Crispinella from The Dutch courtesan / John Marston (1604)
  • Mother from A mad world, my masters / Thomas Middleton (1605)
  • Lucretia Borgia from The devil's charter / Barnabe Barnes (1607)
  • Hermione from The winter's tale / William Shakespeare (1610).
  • Maria from The tamer tamed / John Fletcher (1619)
  • Guiomar from The custom of the country / John Fletcher (1619)
  • Hippolyta from The custom of the country / John Fletcher (1619)
  • Beatrice from The changeling / Thomas Middleton and William Rowley (1622)
  • Leonora from The devil's law-case / John Webster (1623)
  • Lady Alworth from A new way to pay old debts / Philip Massinger (1625)
  • French and Spanish Golden Age
  • Casilda from Peribanez / Lope de Vega (c. 1605-12)
  • Célimène from The misanthrope / Molière (1666)
  • Henriette from The learned ladies / Molière (1672)
  • Phedra from Phedra / Jean Racine (1677)
  • Restoration and eighteenth century
  • Margery from The country wife / William Wycherley (1675)
  • Charlotte from She ventures, and he wins / Ariadne (1695)
  • Bassima from The royal mischief / Delariviere Manley (1696)
  • Lamira from The fatal friendship / Catherine Trotter (1698)
  • Jane from The tragedy of Jane Shore / Nicholas Rowe (1714).
  • Millwood from The London merchant / George Lillo (1731)
  • Miss Stirling from The Clandestine marriage David Garrick/George Coleman (1766)
  • Lydia Languish from The rivals / Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1775)
  • Mrs Dangle from The critic / Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1779)
  • Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
  • Mrs Tiffany from Fashion, or Life in New York / Anna Cora Mowatt (1845)
  • Mrs Alving from Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen (1881)
  • Miss Julie from Miss Julie / August Strindberg (1888)
  • Madame X from The stronger / August Strindberg (1889)
  • Jean from Alan's wife / Florence Bell and Elizabeth Robins (1893)
  • Mrs Cheveley from An ideal husband / Oscar Wilde (1895)
  • Yelena from Uncle Vanya / Anton Chekhov (1897)
  • Alice from The dancer of death, Part 2 / August Strindberg (1901)
  • Margaret from Fanny's first play / George Bernard Shaw (1911)
  • Orinthia from The apple cart / George Bernard Shaw (1929)
  • Bride from Blood wedding / Federico García Lorca (1933).

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