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1 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS...ix PREFACE...xv Chapter One PREPARING FOR AUDITIONS...1 Selected Readings...22 Chapter Two SELECTING AUDITION MATERIALS...23 Selected Readings...45 Chapter Three PLAYING CLASSICAL MONOLOGS...47 Lysistrata Lysistrata...50 Antigone Teiresias...51 Medea Medea...52 Oedipus the King Creon...53 Andromache Nurse, Hermione...54 The Self-Tormenter Clitipho...55 Agamemnon Watchman, Cassandra...56 Prometheus Bound Prometheus...58 Antigone Antigone...59 Medea Jason...60 Alcestis Servant, Hercules...61 Oedipus the King Oedipus...62 The Haunted House Phaniscus...64 Hippolytus Phaedra, Hippolytus...65 Philoctetes Neoptolemus, Philoctetes...67 Antigone Messenger...69 Lysistrata Voluptia...70 Prometheus Bound Hermes...71 Odi et Amo Catullus...72

2 Casina Olympio...73 Electra Electra...74 The Pot of Gold Euclio...75 Chapter Four PLAYING SHAKESPEARE MONOLOGS...77 Henry VIII Wolsey...81 Romeo and Juliet Romeo, Juliet...82 Twelfth Night Malvolio...83 Henry VI, Part I Joan...85 The Two Noble Kinsmen Jailer s Daughter...86 As You Like It Jacques...88 Henry VI, Part III Queen Margaret...89 Macbeth Porter...90 As You Like It Phebe, Rosalind...91 Cymbeline Imogen...93 Richard III Richard...94 All s Well That Ends Well Parolles...95 Antony and Cleopatra Enobarbus...96 Hamlet Hamlet...97 Timon of Athens Timon...98 King John Constance...99 Sonnets Numbers 29, Julius Caesar Brutus Henry IV, Part II Mistress Quickly The Merry Wives of Windsor Mistress Page A Midsummer Night s Dream Helena Venus and Adonis Lines The Taming of the Shrew Petruchio Chapter Five PLAYING PERIOD MONOLOGS The School for Scandal Sir Peter Teazle, Lady Teazle, Mrs.Candour The Misanthrope Celimene The Beggar s Opera Macheath, Polly Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano...117

3 The Importance of Being Earnest Gwendolen Life Is a Dream Segismundo The Miser Harpagon The Beaux Stratagem Mrs. Sullen Volpone Volpone The Ghost Sonata Old Man The Octoroon Zoe All for Love Cleopatra The Historical Register Auctioneer The Contrast Maria The Cherry Orchard Trofimov The Sea Gull Nina, Trigorin Doctor Faustus Faustus There Shall Be No Night Miranda The Rivals Mrs. Malaprop Miss Julie Jean, Miss Julie The Duchess of Malfi Duchess The Way of the World Mrs. Millamant, Mirabell Survey of Period Dates Chapter Six PLAYING MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MONOLOGS Ghosts Mrs. Alving Long Day s Journey Into Night Edmund The Elephant Man Treves Tango Arthur The Cavern Author Luther Tetzel The Typists Sylvia, Paul Contemporary Monologs I Hate Hamlet Andrew Boy s Life Phil Kennedy s Children Carla Tassie Suffers Tassie Aunt Dan and Lemon Lemon Laughing Wild Man Two Mrs. Iger...162

4 Breezeblock Park Uncle Ted The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Trudy Eden Creek Hattie B. Moore Once a Catholic Father Mullarkey The Marriage of Bette and Boo Matt Good Night Desdemona Constance Stepping Out Mavis The Sea Mrs. Rafi Tracers Dinky Dau Rememberin Stuff Maxine, Tony The Road to Mecca Elsa Finding the Sun Fergus Angels Fall Niles Chapter Seven PLAYING NON-DRAMATIC MONOLOGS Anonymous Epigrams Antiphilus, Poseidippus Narratives Princess Ida King Gama s Song Go Ask Alice Alice The Pirates of Penzance Major-General s Song A Bachelor s Complaint Bachelor The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck My Love Is Like to Ice Edmund Spenser The Death of Ivan Ilyich Ivan Ilyich Of Studies Francis Bacon A Haunted Man Narrator Notes from Underground Narrator Historical Documents Thoughts Narrator Letters Oscar Wilde A Prayer to Saint Catherine Anonymous The Union Address Daniel Webster My Mother and God Harry Golden On the Enslavement of Men Abraham Lincoln Civil War Letters Abraham Lincoln An Address on Dunkirk Winston Churchill...195

5 A Tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt Adlai Stevenson Catiline s Defiance Catiline A Love Letter John Keats Perils of the Dance William Prynne Please Hear What I m Not Saying Anonymous Speech to the Congress Davy Crockett Memories Boris Pasternak Additional Dimensions Romeo and Juliet Chorus Henry IV, Part II Rumor Henry IV, Part II Epilogue Interior Monologs Ophelia Ophelia Polonius Polonius Humorous Monologs A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift Ether and Me Will Rogers GLOSSARY OF AUDITION TERMS RESOURCE MATERIALS ABOUT THE AUTHOR...219

SHAKESPEARE. Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry SECOND EDITION: VOLUME 1 THOMSON GALE

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