Classical Monologues. Vol. 1, Younger Men's Roles

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Greek -- 1. Orestes is jubilant, then uncertain, over his revenge (458 BC) / Aeschylus, Libation bearers, tr. R. Lattimore -- 2. Jason defends his abandonment of Medea (431 BC) / Euripides, Medea, tr. F. Prokosch -- 3. The messenger reports Jocasta's suicide and Oedipus' self-blinding (430-425 BC) / Sophocles, Oedipus the King, tr. W.B. Yeats -- 4. Hippolytus curses women and adultery after learning of Phaedra's passion for him (428 BC) / Euripides, Hippolytus, tr. M. Hadas and J. H. McLean -- 5. Hippolytus defends his innocence before his father (428 BC) / Euripides, tr. D. Grene -- 6. The messenger reports the gruesome death of Hippolytus (428 BC) / Euripides, Hippolytus, tr. D. Grene -- 7. Talthybius recounts to Hecuba the slaying of her daughter (417-415 BC?) / Euripides, Hecuba, tr. J. Lembke and K.J. Reckford -- 8. Philoctetes reviles the Greeks who abandoned him (409 BC) / Sophocles, Philoctetes, tr. D. Grene -- 9. Philoctetes curses Neoptolemus for his theft of the magic bow (409 BC) / Sophocles, Philoctetes, tr. D. Grene --
10. The messenger reports the cynically conducted trial that condemned Orestes to death (408 BC) / Euripides, Orestes, tr. J. Peck and F. Nisetich -- 11. Polyneices begs Oedipus' blessing before his battle against his brother (406 BC) / Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, tr. R. Fitzgerald -- 12. The messenger recounts the transfiguration and death of Oedipus (406 BC) / Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, tr. R. Fitzgerald -- Elizabethan/Jacobean -- 13. Tamburlaine persuades an enemy captain to join him (1577-88) / Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, Act 1, Sc. 2 -- 14. Tambourlaine celebrates his love for Zenocrate and for himself (1577-88) / Christopher Marlowe, Tambourlaine the Great, Act 5, Sc. 2 -- 15. Tamburlaine shows himself magnanimous in victory (1577-88) / Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, Act 5, Sc. 2 -- 16. Faustus rejects scholastic learning, yearns for necromantic knowledge (c1589) / Christopher Marlowe, The tragical history of Doctor Faustus, Act 1, Sc. 1 -- 17. Faustus envisions the blessings of conjuring (c1589) / Christopher Marlowe, The tragical history of Doctor Faustus, Act 1, Sc. 1 -- 18. Faustus prays in his last hour to escape damnation (c1589) / Christopher Marlowe, The tragical history of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, Sc. 2 --
19. Gaveston, the new king's favorite, makes plans (c1592) / Christopher Marlowe, The tragedy of Edward II, Act 1, Sc. 1 -- 20. Edward defends his love of Gaveston against his nobles (c1592) / Christopher Marlowe, The tragedy of Edward II, Act 2, Sc. 2 -- 21. Edward swears revenge after Gaveston's murder (c1592) / Christopher Marlowe, The tragedy of Edward II, Act 3, Sc. 2 -- 22. Edward, forced to renounce his crown, rages, sorrows, finally surrenders (c1592) / Christopher Marlowe, The tragedy of Edward II, Act 5, Sc. 1 -- 23. Edward pleas with, braves, succumbs to his murders (c1592) / Christopher Marlowe, The tragedy of Edward II, Act 5, Sc. 5 -- 24. Mendoza, new court lackey, envisions his pleasures in office (1603?) / John Marston, The malcontent, Act 1, Sc. 5 -- 25. Wendoll battles with his conscience (1603) / Thomas Heywood, A woman killed with kindness, Act 2, Sc. 3 -- 26. Frankfort recoils at report of his wife's adultery (1603) / Thomas Heywood, A woman killed with kindness, Act 3, Sc. 2 -- 27. Frankfort pronounces his verdict over his wife's adultery (1603) / Thomas Heywood, A woman killed with kindness, Act 4, Sc. 5 -- 28. Bussy, young and poor, equates poverty and virtue (c1604) / George Chapman, Bussy d'Ambois, Act 1, Sc. 1 --
29. Monsieur the King's brother mocks the lady's argument : "Sir, I have a husband!" (c1604) / George Chapman, Bussy d'Ambois, Act 2, Sc. 2 -- 30. Monsieur is invited to draw for Bussy his "character" (c1604) / George Chapman, Bussy d'Ambois, Act 3, Sc. 2 -- 31. Bussy is invited to draw for Monsieur his "character" (c1604) / George Chapman, Bussy d'Ambois, Act 3, Sc. 2 -- 32. Flamineo damns his mother for having inflicted on him a life of poverty 91609-12) / John Webster, The white devil, Act 1, Sc. 2 -- 33. Brachiano greets his wife with sullen contempt (1609-12) / John Webster, The white devil, Act 2, Sc. 1 -- 34. Francisco fashions his revenge for Isabella's murder with her ghost (1609-12) / John Webster, The white devil, Act 4, Sc. 1 -- 35. Flamineo uses parable to remind the Duke of his ingratitude for services (1609-12) / John Webster, The white devil, Act 4, Sc. 2 -- 36. Brachiano, poisoned, suffers an excruciating death (1609-12) / John Webster, The white devil, Act 5, Sc. 3 -- 37. Flamineo, visited by Brachiano's ghost, surmises his fate (1609-12) / John Webster, The white devil, Act 5, Sc. 4 -- 38. Flamineo outfoxes his sister Vittoria's villainy in their game of pistols (1609-12) / John Webster, The white devil, Act 5, Sc. 6 --
39. Flamineo mordantly but wittily observes the process of his own dying (1609-12) / John Webster, The white devil, Act 5, Sc. 6 -- 40. Bosola importunes the Cardinal for his reward (1613-14) / John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Act 1, Sc. 1 -- 41. Bosola rails at courtier, woman, and "the form of man" (1613-14) / John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Act 2, Sc. 1 -- 42. Ferdinand vilifies the Duchess and her unseen "Lover" (1613-14) / John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Act 3, Sc. 2 -- 43. Ferdinand, the Duchess dead, condemns the murder he enjoined (1613-14) / John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Act 4, Sc. 2 -- 44. Bosola repents after the Duchess's murder (1613-14) / John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Act 4, Sc. 2 -- 45. Giovanni, disputing with the Friar, argues for the propriety of his incestuous love (1629-33) / John Ford, 'Tis pity she's a whore, Act 1, Sc. 1 -- 46. Giovanni, to prevent Annabella's marriage, makes a pact with her for her murder (1629-33) / John Ford, 'Tis pity she's a whore, Act 5, Sc. 5 -- 47. Giovanni brings to his sister's wedding feat her heart on his sword (1629-33) / John Ford, 'Tis pity she's a whore, Act 5, Sc. 6 --
XVII century French/Spanish -- 48. Rodrigue importunes Chimene to kill him for having taken revenge against her father (1638) / Pierre Corneille, Le cid, tr. Paul Landis, Act 3, Sc. 4 -- 49. Rodrigue bids farewell to Chimene before combat (1638) / Pierre Corneille, Le cid, tr. Paul Landis, Act 5, Sc. 1 -- 50. Nero recounts his falling in love with Julia (1669) / Jean Racine, Brittanicus, tr. Robert Henderson and Paul Landis, Act 2, Sc. 1 -- 51. Hippolytus confesses his long-concealed love for Aricia (1677) / Jean Racine, Phaedra, tr. Robert Henderson, Act 2 -- 52. Theramenes reports the gruesome death of Hippolytus (1677) / Jean Racine, Phaedra, tr. Robert Henderson, Act 5 -- 53. Genesius, rehearsing the part of a martyr, wins Christ (c1607-1608) / Lope De Vega, Acting is believing, tr. Michael McGaha, Act 3, Sc. 3 -- 54. Segismund, after lifelong captivity, yearns to know freedom (1636) / Calderon De La Barca, Life is a dream, tr. Roy Campbell, Act 1 -- 55. Segismund, embracing life as a dream, ruminates on its final value (1636) / Calderon De La Barca, Life is a dream, tr. Roy Campbell, Act 3 --
Restoration -- 56. Essex, abject, begs the Queen for return to favor until she leaves with no reply (1681) / John Banks, The unhappy favorite, or The Earl of Essex, Act 2, Sc. 1 -- 57. Essex importunes Southampton to plead his cause to the Queen (1681) / John Banks, The unhappy favorite, or The Earl of Essex, Act 2, Sc. 1 -- 58. Essex, in anguish, despairs of rising again to favor (1681) / John Banks, The unhappy favorite, or, The Earl of Essex, Act 3, Sc. 1 -- 59. Essex, enraged beyond control, lashes out at the Queen for her ingratitude (1681) / John Banks, The unhappy favorite, or, The Earl of Essex, Act 3, Sc. 1 -- 60. The black prince Oroonoko, enslaved by the English planters in Surinam, scorns them and their Christianity (1695) / Thomas Southerne, Oroonoko, Act 1, Sc. 2 -- XVIII century English/German -- 61. Barnwell executes a murder against his will (1731) / George Lillo, The London merchant, Act 3, Sc. 3 -- 62. Barnwell suffers agonies of remorse after murdering his uncle (1731) / George Lillo, The London merchant, Act 3, Sc. 7 -- 63. Spiegelberg, after a fool exploit with students, promotes plan for an "immortal" exploit (1782) / Friedrich Schiller, The robbers, ad. L. Katz, Act 1, sc. 1 --
64. Franz contemplates plans for betrayal and murder of father and brother (1782) / Friedrich Schiller, The robbers, ad. L. Katz, Act 1, Sc. 2 -- 65. Spielelberg exhorts students to become a robber band (1782) / Friedrich Schiller, The robbers, ad. L. Katz, Act 1, Sc. 3 -- 66. Karl returns the captive priest to townsmen with message: "My holy calling is vengeance" (1782) / Friedrich Schiller, The robbers, ad. L. Katz, Act 2, Sc. 2 -- 67. Karl, remembering his innocence, yearns : "Make me a child again" (1782) / Friedrich Schiller, The robbers, ad. L. Katz, Act 2, Sc. 2 -- XIX century English/French -- 68. Manfred contemplates suicide (1817) / George Gordon Byron, Manfred, Act 1, Sc. 2 -- 69. Manfred confesses his guilt and despair (1817) / George Gordon Byron, Manfred, Act 2, Sc. 2 -- 70. Sailor William, legally but not morally guilty, defends himself at his trial before the admiralty (1829) / Douglas Jerrold, Black-ey'd Susan, Act 3, Sc. 2 -- 71. Sailor William, condemned, prepares to meet his death (1829) / Douglas Jerrold, Black-ey'd Susan, Act 3, Sc. 4 --
72. Mordaunt accuses Lady Mabel of "the deepest crime" (1842) / J. Westland Marston, The patrician's daughter, Act 3, Sc. 2 -- 73. Robert Brierly, in prison, grieves for the suffering he is causing his faithful wife May (1863) / Tom Taylor, The ticket-of-leave man, Act 4 -- 74. Aubrey Tanqueray alerts his friends : his new wife may not meet with their set's approval (1893) / Arthur Wing Pinero, The second Mrs. Tanqueray, Act 1 -- 75. Lorenzaccio deliberates : "Am I Satan?" (1834) / Alfred De Musset, Lorenzaccio, tr. L. Katz, Act 3, Sc. 3 -- 76. Lorenzaccio rehearses his procedure for murdering Alessandro (1834) / Alfred De Musset, Lorenzaccio, tr. L. Katz, Act 4, Sc. 9 -- Comedy -- Greek -- 77. Trigaeus, on his way to Heaven, begs his mounted beetle not to notice shit in the world below (421 BC) / Aristophanes, Peace, ad. L. Katz -- Italian Renaissance -- 78. Callimaco reports on his perfect night with Lucrezia (c1515-20) / Machiavelli, Mandragola, tr. Kenneth and Laura Richards, Act 5, Sc. 4 --
79. Marca details soberly how he and his companions cheated the landlord out of a banquet (c1581) / Giordano Bruno, Il candelaio, tr. J.R. Hale, Act 3, Sc. 8 -- 80. Sanguino takes private comfort in his parable of how the tricked can become the trickster (1581) / Giordano Bruno, Il candelaio, tr. J.R. Hale, Act 2, Sc. 4 -- 81. Bernardo explains to his love the virtue of forgetting about honor (c1581) / Giordano Bruno, Il candelaio, tr. J.R. hale, Act 5, Sc. 11 -- 82. Scaramure wants whores and whoremongers entirely absolved of reproach (c1581) / Giordano Bruno, Il candelaio, tr. J.R. Hale, Act 5, Sc. 18 -- Elizabethan/Jacobean -- 83. Sligut takes note of several passengers crawling out of the Themes after shipwreck (1604) / Marston, Chapman, and Jonson, Eastward Ho!, Act 4, Sc. 1 -- 84. Mosca ejects Volpone's would-be heirs (1606) / Ben Johnson, Volpone, Act 5, Sc. 1 -- 85. Novice Ralph inspires bumbling men to battle and glory (1607) / Beaumont and Fletcher, The knight of the burning pestle, Act 5, Sc. 2 -- 86. Ralph, with a forked arrow through his head, recites his dying speech (1607) / Beaumont and Fletcher, The knight of the burning pestle, Act 5, Sc. 3 -- Restoration -- 87. Bayes the poet explains his strategy for making plays (1671) / George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, The rehearsal, Act 1. Sc. 1 -- 88. Bayes seeks advice on presenting his prologue (1671) / George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, The rehearsal, Act 1, Sc. 2 --
89. Rhodophil laments the misfortune of marriage, and plans consolation with a yet-to-be-won mistress (1672) / John Dryden, Marriage-a-la-mode, Act 1, Sc. 1 -- 90. Rholdophil resolves that he and Doralice must forever suffer the misfortune of their marriage (1672) / John Dryden, Marriage-a-la-mode, Act 3, Sc. 1 -- 91. Horner explains to his doctor the advantages of pretending to be a eunuch (1675) / William Wycherley, The country wife, Act 1 -- 92. Ramble declares a "new order of nature" for true wits and against fools (1675) / John Crowe, The country wit, Act 2 -- 93. Sir Fopling Flutter displays on his person the French mode (1676) / George Etherege, The man of mode, Act 3, Sc. 1 -- 94. Whittmore, under instructions from Lucia, must "feign a courtship" to Isabella (1678) / Aphra Behn, Sir patient fancy, Act 2, Sc. 1 -- 95. Petro demonstrates how the body can tell a tale and pick a pocket, with small aid from words or sense (1679) / Aphra Behn, The feign'd courtesan, Act 2, Sc. 1 -- 96. Belfont Senior, the "swinish" rustic son of a brutish father, embraces London's low life (1688) / Thomas Shadwell, The squire of Alsatia, Act 1, Sc. 1-- 97. Sosia, playing two parts, rehearses the news he is bringing to Alcmene (1690) / John Dryden, Amphitryon, Act 2, Sc. 1 --
98. Mellefont recounts how Lady Touchwood invaded his bedchamber and wooed with fury (1694) / William Congreve, The double dealer, Act 1, Sc. 3 -- 99. Maskwell strengthens Mellefont's confidence in his loyalty by confidently confessing his treachery (1694) / William Congreve, the double dealer, Act 2, Sc. 7 -- 100. Maskwell, self-congratulating, apostrophizes treachery and double dealing (1694) / William Congreve, The double dealer, Act 2, Sc. 2 -- 101. The valet Jeremy is horrified at his master's plant turn playwright (1695) / William Congreve, Love for love, Act 1, Sc. 1 -- 102. Loveless, impoverished by riot, remains thoroughly well disposed toward pleasure (1696) / Colley Cibber, Love's last shift, Act 1, Sc. 1 -- 103. Loveless embraces love of virtue together with bliss, and fulsomely repents (1696) / Colley Cibber, Love's last shift, Act 5, Sc. 2 -- 104. Sir Novelty Fashion demonstrates how he merits his name (1696) / Colley Cibber, Love's last shift, Act 2, Sc. 1 -- 105. Lord Foppington favors a lady with an account of his day (1696) / John Vanbrugh, The relapse, Act 2, Sc. 2 -- 106. Loveless is disquieted by the logic of his wavering marital affections (1969) / John Vanbrugh, The relapse, Act 3, Sc. 1 -- 107. Lord Foppington, in the epilogue, condemns the author (1696) / John Vanbrugh, The relapse, Epilogue -- 108. Fainall dismisses wives, marriage, cuckoldry and jealously (1700) / William Congreve, The way of the world, Act 3, Sc. 3 --
109. Mirabel offers his conditions for marriage to Millimant (1700) / William Congreve, The way of the world, Act 4, Sc. 1 -- 110. Beaumine commiserates with and warns Phillabell, who is in danger of marriage (1700) / Catherine Trotter, Love is a loss, Act 1, Sc. 2 -- 111. Beaumine, while chastising Lesbia, pretends to talk himself into an immediate proposal of marriage (1700) / Catherine Trotter, Love at a loss, Act 3, Sc. 1 -- XVII century French -- 112. Tartuffe attempts to seduce Elmire, the wife of his patron (1664) / Jean-Baptiste Molière, Don Juan, tr. G. Graveley and I. Maclean, Act 1, Sc. 1 -- 113. Sganarelle reveals the true nature of his master Don Juan (1665) / Jean-Baptiste Molière, Don Juan, tr. G. Graveley and I. Maclean, Act 1, Sc. 1 -- 114. Don Juan explains his contempt for the idea of fidelity (1665) / Jean-Baptiste Molière, Don Juan, tr. G. Graveley and I. Maclean, Act 1, Sc. 2 -- 115. Don Juan explains his devotion to "the fashionable vice," hypocrisy (1665) / Jean-Baptiste Molière, Don Juan, tr. G. Graveley and I. Maclean, Act 5, Sc. 2 --
116. Alceste, condemning Celimene's falseness, also confesses his love (1666) / Jean-Baptiste Molière, The misanthrope, tr. Richard Wilbur, Act, 4, Sc. 3 -- 117. Arlecchino's account of his trip to the Moon (c1666) / Giuseppe Domenico Biancolelli (Alrecchino), tr. Pierre Louis Duchartre -- 118. Arlecchino's heroic attempt to commit suicide (c1660s) / Guiseppe Domenico Biancolelli (Arlecchino), ad, L. Katz -- XVIII century English -- 119. Young Bookwit, newly arrived in London prepares to put into practice his scrupulous study of women (1703) / Richard Steele, The lying lover, Act 1, Sc. 1 -- 120. Captain Clerimont, disguised as a painter, offers a young lady her choice of compelling attitudes for her portrait (1704) / Richard Steele, The tender husband, Act 4, Sc. 2 -- 121. Bevil Jr., constrained but courteous, counters his father's choice of wife for him (1722) / Richard Steele, The conscious lovers, Act 1, Sc. 2 -- 122. Sharp implores his destitute master to marry (1740) / David Garrick The lying valet, Act. 1, Sc. 1 -- 123. Puff reveals the secrets of his craft (1779) / Richard Brinsley Sheridan , The critic, Act 1, Sc. 2 -- XIX/XX century German/Scandinavian/English -- 124. Leonce contemplates with cheer love, emptiness, and boredom (1836) / Georg Buchner, Leonce and Lena, tr. Carl Richard Mueller, Act 1, Sc. 3 -- 125. Leonce contemplates with cheer love, emptiness, and boredom (1836) / Georg Buchner, Leonce and Lena, tr. Carl Richard Mueller, Act 1, Sc. 3 --
126. Valerio returns to court with two "mechanisms :" Leonce and Lena (1836) / George Buchner, Leonce and Lena, tr. Carl Richard Mueller, Act 3, Sc. 3 -- 127. Peer Gynt drives his dying mother to Heaven (1867) / Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, tr. Wm. Archer, ad. L. Katz, Act 3, Sc. 4 -- 128. Tanner, exhorting Ann to assert her independence, puts his own in jeopardy (1903) / Bernard Shaw, Man and superman, Act 3 -- Glossary of Greek and Roman names.

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