Table of Contents
Acknowlegments 009
Part I Introduction
I. An Overview of Shakespeare’s Dramatic Soliloquy 013
II. Reciting Shakespeare’s Dramatic Language 020
Part II Dialogue with Monologue
I. Language as Hormone: Juliet’s Shortened Girlhood 033
II. Who’s the Addressee?—Four Types of Shakespearean Soliloquies 051
Part III Selected Soliloquies from Shakespeare with Brief Commentary
I. from Romeo and Juliet 079
1 “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”—Read by R. Nordli 080
2 “The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse.”— Read by R. Nordli 082
3 “Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds” —Read by R. Nordli 084
4 “Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend” —Read by R. Nordli 086
5 “Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.” —Read by R. Nordli 087
II. from Twelfth Night 090
1 “I do I know not what, and fear to find” —Read by R. Nordli 090
2 “I left no ring with her: what means this lady?” —Read by R. Nordli 091
3 “’Tis but fortune, all is fortune.” —Read by W. Diggle 093
III. from 1 Henry IV103
1 “I know you all, and will awhile uphold” —Read by P. E. Johnson 104
2 “ ‘But for mine own part, my lord’ ” —Read by L. Banovez 105
3 “’Tis not due yet, I would be loath to pay him”— Read by A. Hutchinson 107
4 “Well, if Percy be alive, I’ll pierce him.” —Read by A. Hutchinson 109
5 “O Harry, thou hast robb’d me of my youth!” —Read by L. Banovez 110
6 “For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart!” —Read by C. H. Perng 111
7 “Emboweled? If thou embowel me today” —Read by C. H. Perng 112
IV. from 2 Henry IV 114
1 “How many thousand of my poorest subjects” —Read by P. E. Johnson 114
2 “Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow” —Read by P. E. Johnson 116
V. from Macbeth 118
1 “Two truths are told” —by C. Ware 119
2 “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shall be” —Read by R. Nordli 121
3 “The raven himself is hoarse” —Read by R. Nordli 123
4 “If it were done, when ’tis done, then ’twere well” —Read by W. Diggle 124
5 “Is this a dagger which I see before me” —Read by E. Schoen 127
6 “Out, damned spot! Out, I say” —Read by R. Nordli 129
7 “Seyton!—I am sick at heart” —Read by Patrick Siler 131
8 “I have almost forgot the taste of fears.”—Read by C. H. Perng 133
9 “She should have died hereafter.”—Read by C. H. Perng 133
VI. from Hamlet 132
1 “O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt” —Read by I. Christiansen 132
2 “To be, or not to be, that is the question” —Read by E. Schoen 135
3 “O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!” —Read by R. Nordli 138
4 “O, my offence is rank! It smells to heaven.” —Read by M. R. Pauley 140
5. “Now might I do it pat, now a is a-praying” —Read by N. Whitmer 142
6 “And England, if my love thou hold’st at aught” —Read by M. R. Pauley 144
7 “How all occasions do inform against me” —Read by B. Marshall-Rashid 146
VII. from The Merchant of Venice 148
1 “How like a fawning publican he looks!” —Read by G. J. Penzick 148
2 “Certainly, my conscience will serve me” —Read by L. Banovez 150
3 “So may the outward shows be least themselves.” —Read by S. Wilson 152
Part IV Some Long Speeches with Brief Commentary
I. from The Merchant of Venice 159
1 “You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand,” —Read by R. Nordli 159
2 “The quality of mercy is not strained.” —Read by R. Nordli 161
II. from King Lear 163
1 “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow!” —Read by J. Graves 163
III. from The Tempest 166
1 “You do look, my son, in a moved sort,” —Read by J. Graves 166

Table of Contents
Acknowlegments 009
Part I Introduction
I. An Overview of Shakespeare’s Dramatic Soliloquy 013
II. Reciting Shakespeare’s Dramatic Language 020
Part II Dialogue with Monologue
I. Language as Hormone: Juliet’s Shortened Girlhood 033
II. Who’s the Addressee?—Four Types of Shakespearean Soliloquies 051
Part III Selected Soliloquies from Shakespeare with Brief Commentary
I. from Romeo and Juliet 079
1 “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”—Read by R. Nordli 08...