Monologue

Falstaff Monologue from The Merry Wives of Windsor

From The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

male · comedic · 1:25 min

Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in ’t. Have I lived to be carried in a basket like a barrow of butcher’s offal, and to be thrown in the Thames? Well, if I be served such another trick, I’ll have my brains ta’en out and buttered, and give them to a dog for a New Year’s gift. ’Sblood, the rogues slighted me into the river with as little remorse as they would have drowned a blind bitch’s puppies, fifteen i’ the litter; and you may know by my size that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking; if the bottom were as deep as hell, I should down. I had been drowned, but that the shore was shelvy and shallow—a death that I abhor, for the water swells a man, and what a thing should I have been when I had been swelled! I should have been a mountain of mummy. Enter Bardolph with sack. BARDOLPH Here’s Mistress Quickly, sir, to speak with you.

Rehearse Falstaff's monologue

Run it out loud with a spotlight that follows your voice, line by line, until it's off the page. Free to start, no credit card.