Shakespeare Monologues for Men | Best Male Shakespeare Monologues

[@motsapiramatlapeng9443]

One of us in the StageMilk community is going to make it big one day, and we'll have to give you a shout. We really appreciate you Andrew.

[@StageMilk]

I hope so! Looking forward to my mention in someone’s Oscar speech haha

[@nervouslandfowl]

I can definitely say that your videos are WAY MORE INFORMATIVE than a year I spent in acting school

[@StageMilk]

That is very nice of you to say, though sorry to hear you didn’t have a great drama school experience.

[@rushikeshkamat]

Thank you for this. Much love from India 🇮🇳

[@StageMilk]

Thanks!

[@mrnickreynolds1986]

Thanks Andrew great work! When I did a 4 day course years ago at the Poor School in KX London I had to learn a Shakespeare monologue in 4 days and had never read Shakespeare before in my life! I chose Benedick Much Ado About Nothing, I'm not sure my acting tutor was too impressed with my choice but I felt I did pretty well considering haha. You've inspired me to read more Shakespeare again

[@StageMilk]

Such a great character and a few good monologues from Benedick. So I think it’s a great choice. But might be nice toy tackle one of the verse monologues I’ve included here

[@TheNerges]

This has been amazingly helpful. Thanks. Could you do a sequel on the best female monologues, please?

[@StageMilk]

Amazing! And yes we do it’s actually already live on the channel. Subscribe and have a look ok the videos

[@ishmaelforester9825]

The lines from the tragedies and histories are great but my favourite monologue is from As You Like it, the best comedy. Orlando: Did you cure any so? Rosalind: Yes, one; and in this manner. He was to imagine me his love, his mistress; and I set him every day to woo me; at which time would I, being but a moonish youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, longing and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow, inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles; for every passion something and for no passion truly anything, as boys and women are for the most part cattle of this colour; would now like him, now loathe him; then entertain him, then forswear him; now weep for him, then spit at him; that I drave my suitor from his mad humour of love to a living humour of madness; which was, to forswear the full stream of the world and to live in a nook merely monastic. And thus I cur'd him; and this way will I take upon me to wash your liver as clean as a sound sheep's heart, that there shall not be one spot of love in 't

[@everthastie1369]

I am doing one from Act I scene iv of Hamlet where Horatio warns Hamlet of going mad

[@StageMilk]

Great one and great character

[@atis9061]

I love that Richard II monologue! thanks for choosing one of my favorites. what about comedy?

[@StageMilk]

Sooo good! I think Benedick from much ado is always great - this page should give heaps of options www.stagemilk.com/shakespeare-comedy-monologues/

[@vaibhavkumartak]

Super

[@StageMilk]

Hope it helped!

[@vaibhavkumartak]

@@StageMilk yaas … preparing the Macbeth one .. thank you 😊

[@StageMilk]

Hope you all enjoy! Let us know in the comment what your favourite Shakespeare monologue is!

[@sandygraves5259]

Very inspirational work, thank you, (but who can love actual evil? And iago is evil realized. NOT loveable; iago just sucks the root.)

[@StageMilk]

Thanks so much! I agree that Iago is morally bankrupt - but always important for the actor to find their reasoning for why he acts the way he does

[@rodolfopedroni4574]

How long are these monologues?? 2 mins each?

[@StageMilk]

They vary but on average they would mostly be 2 mins or less

[@StageMilk]

You can always cut as well if you need

[@mitchrosario1529]

Here to learn just to impress my wife 😅

[@StageMilk]

Not a bad motivation - who doesn’t love a bit of Shakespeare to help the romance!