Speeches and Scansion
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Helena; Act 1, Scene 1; “How happy some o’er other some can be!”
- Oberon & Titania; Act 1, Scene 2; “Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania”
All’s Well That Ends Well
- Helena; Act 1, Scene 3; “Then I confess / Here on my knee…”
- Parolles; Act 4, Scene 3: “Yet am I thankfull: if my heart were great..“
As You Like It
- Duke Senior: Act 2, Scene 1; “Now my co-mates and brothers in exile…”
- Jacques; Act 2, Scene 7; “All the world’s a stage,” Nicholas Martin Smith & David Pearson
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C
Cymbeline
- Iachimo; Act 2, Scene 2; “The crickets sing, and man’s o’er-labour’d sense…”
- Imogen; Act 3, Scene 2; “Oh for a horse with wings…”
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D, E, F, G
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Hamlet
- Hamlet; Act 1, Scene 2; “Oh, that this too, too solid flesh” Twice Lisa Wolpe and Xavier Pacheco
- Hamlet; Act 2, Scene 2; “I have of late lost all my mirth…” Twice: Tyler Moss and Barry Edelstein.
- Folio Version
- Shakespeare Forum Version
Henry IV, Part 1
- Falstaff; Act 5, Scene 1; “‘Tis not due yet; I would be loath…”
- Dan Daily and Angus Vail
- Lady Percy; Act 2, Scene 3; “O, my good lord, why are you thus alone?”
Henry IV, Part 2
- Lady Percy; Act 2, Scene 3; “O yet, for God’s sake, go not to these wars!”
Henry V
- Chorus; Prologue; “O for a muse of fire..”
Henry VI, Part 3
- Richard of Gloucester; Act 3, Scene 2; “Ay, Edward will use women honourably…”
- Jim Devita and Hamilton Clancy and Jeffrey Wilson
- Queen Margaret; Act 1, Scene 4; “Brave warriors, Clifford and Northumberland…”
- Modern Version
- Folio Version
- Scanned Version
Henry VIII
- Lady Anne; Act 2, Scene 3; “Not for that neither. Here’s the pang that pinches:…”
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Julius Caesar
- Cassius; Act 1, Scene 2: “I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,”
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King Lear
- The Fool; Act 3, Scene 2; “This is a brave night to cool a courtesan.”
- Kent; Act 2, Scene 2; “A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats…”
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Love’s Labor’s Won
- War; Prologue; “Nay, do not run—for thou dost know me well.”
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Love’s Labor’s Lost
- Berowne; Act 3, Scene 1; “And I forsooth in Love…”
Macbeth
- Macbeth; Act 3, Scene 1; “To be thus is nothing …” Benjamin Curns
- Macbeth; Act 1, Scene 7; “If it were done when tis done, …” Twice: Oliveras & Ty Jones
Measure for Measure
- Angelo; Act 2, Scene 2; “What’s this, what’s this? Is this her fault or mine?”
The Merchant Of Venice
- Launcelot; Act 2, Scene 2; “Certainly my conscience will serve me…”
Much Ado About Nothing
- Benedick; Act 2, Scene 3; “I do much wonder that one man…”
- Beatrice; Act 4, Scene 1; “Princes and Counties! Surely a princely…”
- Beatrice; Act 1, Scene 1; “I pray you, is Signior Mountanto returned from the wars or no?”
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O
Othello
- Othello; Act 2, Scene 3, “And what’s he then that says I play the villain?”
- Othello; Act 5, Scene 2, “It is the cause, it is the cause…”
Richard II
- Richard II; Act 3, Scene 2, “Discomfortable cousin, know’st thou not…“
- Richard II; Act 5, Scene 5, “I have been studying how I may compare…”
- Bishop of Carlisle; Act 4, Scene 1, “Worst in this royal presence may I speak,…”
Richard III
- Richard, the Duke of Gloucester; Act 1, Scene 1 “Now is the Winter of Our Discontent…”
- Richard, the Duke of Gloucester; Act 1, Scene 2 “Was ever woman in this humor wooed?” and “Milan Dragecivich”
- Richard III; Act 4, Scene 4 “Look what is done cannot be now amended.”
Romeo and Juliet
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Sonnet 128
Sonnet 29
Sonnet 65
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The Taming of the Shrew
- Katherine; Act 5, Scene 2; “Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow…” Gabra Zackman and Elizabeth Wisan
- Katherine; Act 4, Scene 3; “The more my wrong, the more his spite appears “
The Tempest
- Caliban; Act 2, Scene 2; “All the infections that the sun sucks up…”
- Prospero; Act 4, Scene 1; “You do look my son in a mov’d sort…”
- Ariel; Act 3, Scene 3; “You are three men of sinne…”
- Prospero & Miranda; Act 1, Scene 2
The Two Gentlemen Of Verona
- Proteus; Act 2, Scene 4; “Even as one heat another heat expels,”
Titus Andronicus
- Titus Andronicus; Act 3, Scene 1; “If there were reason for these miseries…”
- Aaron; Act 5, Scene 1; “Ay, had I not done a thousand more…”
- Tamora; Act 1, Scene 1; “Not so my lord. The gods forfend…”
Twelfth Night
- Malvolio Act 2, Scene 5; “Tis but fortune, all is fortune…”
- Sebastian; Act 4, Scene 3: “This is the air, that is the …”
- Orsino; Act 1, Scene 1; “If music be the food of love…”
- Viola Act 5, Scene 1; “If nothing lets to make us happy both…”
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W
The Winter’s Tale
- Leontes; Act 1, Scene 2; “Inch-thick, knee-deep, o’er head and ears a fork’d one!”
- Hermione; Act 3, Scene 2; “Since what I am to say must be but that..”
X, Y, Z
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