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One-minute monologues for men

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Robin Goodfellow Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare · play · comedic · 0:43 min
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but…
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King Henry II from The Lion in Winter
Anthony Harvey · film · dramatic · 0:52 min
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Benvolio from Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare · play · contemplative · 0:51 min
Madam, an hour before the worshipp’d sun Peer’d forth the golden window of the east, A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad, Where underneath the grove of sycamore That westward…
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Mercutio from Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare · play · dramatic · 1:04 min
Nay, I’ll conjure too. Romeo! Humours! Madman! Passion! Lover! Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh, Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied; Cry but ‘Ah me!’ Pronounce but Love…
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Capulet from Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 0:54 min
When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew; But for the sunset of my brother’s son It rains downright. How now? A conduit, girl? What, still in tears? Evermore showering? In one…
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Macbeth from Macbeth
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:05 min
(Aside.) Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme.—I thank you, gentlemen.— (Aside.) This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be…
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Macbeth from Macbeth
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 0:56 min
Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour at most, I will advise you where to plant yourselves, Acquaint you with the perfect spy o’ th’ time, The moment on’t; for’t must…
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Macbeth from Macbeth
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 0:58 min
We have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it. She’ll close, and be herself; whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former tooth. But let the frame of things disjoint, Both…
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Macbeth from Macbeth
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 0:58 min
I do forget.— Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends. I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing To those that know me. Come, love and health to all; Then I’ll sit down.—Give…
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Macbeth from Macbeth
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:00 min
Thou are too like the spirit of Banquo. Down! Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs:—and thy hair, Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first. A third is like the former.—Filthy…
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Macbeth from Macbeth
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 0:56 min
Take thy face hence. (Exit Servant.) Seyton!—I am sick at heart, When I behold—Seyton, I say!—This push Will cheer me ever or disseat me now. I have liv’d long enough: my way of…
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Macbeth from Macbeth
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:02 min
If thou speak’st false, Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth, I care not if thou dost for me as much.— I pull in resolution;…
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First Senator from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · contemplative · 0:53 min
This cannot be By no assay of reason. ’Tis a pageant To keep us in false gaze. When we consider The importancy of Cyprus to the Turk; And let ourselves again but understand That,…
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Othello from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 0:54 min
Let her have your voice. Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not To please the palate of my appetite, Nor to comply with heat, the young affects In me defunct, and proper…
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Cassio from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · joyful · 0:56 min
She that I spake of, our great captain’s captain, Left in the conduct of the bold Iago; Whose footing here anticipates our thoughts A se’nnight’s speed. Great Jove, Othello guard,…
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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…
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Othello from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 0:59 min
Now, by heaven, My blood begins my safer guides to rule, And passion, having my best judgement collied, Assays to lead the way. Zounds, if I stir, Or do but lift this arm, the…
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Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · philosophical · 0:50 min
As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got…
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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.…
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Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · contemplative · 0:47 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…
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Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:00 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…
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Othello from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 1:00 min
That is a fault. That handkerchief Did an Egyptian to my mother give. She was a charmer, and could almost read The thoughts of people. She told her, while she kept it, ’Twould…
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Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:01 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…
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Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 0:46 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…
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Iago from Othello
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 0:59 min
Ay, if you dare do yourself a profit and a right. He sups tonight with a harlotry, and thither will I go to him. He knows not yet of his honourable fortune. If you will watch his…
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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…
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Lear from King Lear
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 0:55 min
Hear me, recreant! on thine allegiance, hear me! Since thou hast sought to make us break our vows, Which we durst never yet, and with strain’d pride To come betwixt our sentences…
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Fool from King Lear
William Shakespeare · play · sarcastic · 0:51 min
Why, after I have cut the egg i’ the middle and eat up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou clovest thy crown i’ the middle and gav’st away both parts, thou bor’st thine…
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Lear from King Lear
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:01 min
It may be so, my lord. Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful! Into her womb convey sterility! Dry up in…
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Edmund from King Lear
William Shakespeare · play · dramatic · 0:59 min
The Duke be here tonight? The better! best! This weaves itself perforce into my business. My father hath set guard to take my brother; And I have one thing, of a queasy question,…

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