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Monologues about jealousy

Six hundred pieces in the library are tagged with jealousy and most of them are not Shakespeare. Suspicion, envy, the friend who got the part. The thirty below read best on their own; the public-domain ones print whole.

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1
Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 1:40 min
Despise me if I do not. Three great ones of the city, In personal suit to make me his lieutenant, Off-capp’d to him; and by the faith of man, I know my price, I am worth no worse…
2
Roderigo from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 1:27 min
Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you, If ’t be your pleasure, and most wise consent, (As partly I find it is) that your fair daughter, At this odd-even and dull watch o’…
3
Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:12 min
Farewell; for I must leave you: It seems not meet nor wholesome to my place To be produc’d, as if I stay I shall, Against the Moor. For I do know the state, However this may gall…
4
Brabantio from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 1:21 min
O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow’d my daughter? Damn’d as thou art, thou hast enchanted her, For I’ll refer me to all things of sense, (If she in chains of magic were not…
5
Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 2:15 min
It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will. Come, be a man. Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies. I have professed me thy friend, and I confess me knit…
6
Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:37 min
Thus do I ever make my fool my purse. For I mine own gain’d knowledge should profane If I would time expend with such a snipe But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor, And it…
7
Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 2:12 min
Lay thy finger thus, and let thy soul be instructed. Mark me with what violence she first loved the Moor, but for bragging, and telling her fantastical lies. And will she love him…
8
Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:02 min
Lechery, by this hand. An index and obscure prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts. They met so near with their lips that their breaths embrac’d together. Villainous…
9
Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:52 min
That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it; That she loves him, ’tis apt, and of great credit: The Moor, howbeit that I endure him not, Is of a constant, loving, noble nature;…
10
Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:50 min
And what’s he then, that says I play the villain? When this advice is free I give and honest, Probal to thinking, and indeed the course To win the Moor again? For ’tis most easy…
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Othello from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 1:13 min
Why, why is this? Think’st thou I’d make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No. To be once in doubt Is once to be resolv’d:…
12
Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 0:54 min
I am glad of it, for now I shall have reason To show the love and duty that I bear you With franker spirit: therefore, as I am bound, Receive it from me. I speak not yet of proof.…
13
Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · contemplative · 0:53 min
(Returning.) My lord, I would I might entreat your honour To scan this thing no further. Leave it to time: Though it be fit that Cassio have his place, For sure he fills it up…
14
Othello from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 1:30 min
This fellow’s of exceeding honesty, And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,…
15
Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:02 min
Be not acknown on’t, I have use for it. Go, leave me. (Exit Emilia.) I will in Cassio’s lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous…
16
Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:11 min
I do not like the office, But sith I am enter’d in this cause so far, Prick’d to ’t by foolish honesty and love, I will go on. I lay with Cassio lately, And being troubled with a…
17
Desdemona from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 0:59 min
I prithee do so. (Exit Iago.) Something sure of state, Either from Venice, or some unhatch’d practice Made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him, Hath puddled his clear spirit, and…
18
Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:05 min
Stand you awhile apart, Confine yourself but in a patient list. Whilst you were here o’erwhelmed with your grief, (A passion most unsuiting such a man) Cassio came hither. I…
19
Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 0:54 min
That’s not amiss. But yet keep time in all. Will you withdraw? (Othello withdraws.) Now will I question Cassio of Bianca, A housewife that by selling her desires Buys herself…
20
Emilia from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 1:32 min
Yes, a dozen; and as many to the vantage as would store the world they played for. But I do think it is their husbands’ faults If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties,…
21
Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 0:54 min
I have rubb’d this young quat almost to the sense, And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio, Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other, Every way makes my gain. Live…
22
Othello from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 1:48 min
Behold, I have a weapon. A better never did itself sustain Upon a soldier’s thigh: I have seen the day That with this little arm and this good sword I have made my way through…
23
Edmund from King Lear
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:23 min
The enemy’s in view; draw up your powers. Here is the guess of their true strength and forces By diligent discovery; but your haste Is now urg’d on you. (ALBANY: We will greet the…
24
Helena from A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare · play · romantic · 0:56 min
Call you me fair? That fair again unsay. Demetrius loves your fair. O happy fair! Your eyes are lode-stars and your tongue’s sweet air More tuneable than lark to shepherd’s ear,…
25
Titania from A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare · play · dramatic · 2:20 min
These are the forgeries of jealousy: And never, since the middle summer’s spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By pavèd fountain, or by rushy brook, Or on the beachèd…
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Helena from A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 1:05 min
O, I am out of breath in this fond chase! The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace. Happy is Hermia, wheresoe’er she lies, For she hath blessèd and attractive eyes. How came her…
27
Hermia from A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 0:55 min
Now I but chide, but I should use thee worse, For thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse. If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep, Being o’er shoes in blood, plunge in the…
28
Helena from A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 1:13 min
O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent To set against me for your merriment. If you were civil, and knew courtesy, You would not do me thus much injury. Can you not hate me, as I…
29
Helena from A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 1:52 min
Lo, she is one of this confederacy! Now I perceive they have conjoin’d all three To fashion this false sport in spite of me. Injurious Hermia, most ungrateful maid! Have you…
30
Helena from A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 0:56 min
Have you not set Lysander, as in scorn, To follow me, and praise my eyes and face? And made your other love, Demetrius, Who even but now did spurn me with his foot, To call me…

Length is estimated at a spoken pace of about 150 words a minute. Public-domain pieces are printed in full on their own page; copyrighted ones list the character and the source.

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