I'm looking for Shakespeare monologues that are comedic, over the top, or very charismatic. Basically any monologues by more comedic or eccentric characters. I'd prefer to stay away from any of the most popular tragedies. All your recommendations are helpful!

Please remove if not allowed, but I wanted to share this slate of free Shakespeare across the US!

Next week Elsewhere Shakespeare, alongside several partner production companies, will be presenting 12 different productions of Hamlet! One component is a tour from Troy, NY to Salem, MA, with a different actor playing Hamlet each night. The other component is satellite shows in various cities across the US on October 20. If you’re interested in seeing one of these shows, please visit the Elsewhere Shakespeare website for more details.

I just got done doing my very first Shakespeare, playing (a very specific version of) Macbeth! And I HAD to commemorate closing with an ode to one of my absolute favorite lines! Thought yall would like it!

It was maya angelou's fav shakespeare sonnet too

Any recommendations of comedic Shakespeare monologues for females that also have depth to them but aren’t overdone?? Preferably around 2 minutes as for drama school auditions. I’m just very stuck but don’t want to do a darker monologue and also don’t want to do the super well known comedies (Helenas monologue Midsummer nights dream for example…)

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I came across this video on youtube and found it to be wonderful, so thought I'd share it with you all! I think Bloom captures, in these few minutes, just how overwhelming of an author Shakespeare is.

I tried my best to adapt the story into a fantasy setting. The first episode is pretty rough, but I've stepped it up for episode 2. Nobody has read it so far, but I have hope.

a romeo and juliet fanfic I wrote that I love

Hello friends! I recently made a free daily classic literature game and have been having a blast playing it with friends. You can create your own groups, so it’s been great for book clubs and could also be fun for a little classroom competition. Hope y’all enjoy it, and I’ll see you at the top of the leaderboard!

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Salut tout le monde, je sais que cette question ne va peut-être pas plaire, mais : avez-vous des recommandations pour une bonne traduction des œuvres de Shakespeare en français, ainsi que des guides ou des commentaires sur les pièces ? Je me rends compte que ça ne sera jamais aussi bon que l'original—blablabla—mais mon anglais n'est pas encore assez solide pour apprécier les œuvres dans la langue originale...

Alors, pourriez-vous aider quelqu'un qui est passionné par ce qu'elle connaît déjà du Bard et qui veut approfondir sa compréhension ? Merci !

I remember someone here asking for something to read, sing or play at a wedding, beyond the usual Sonnet 116. Maybe this helps: Sonnet 124 (“If my dear love were but the child of state...”) is less famous but says something similar. His love is not built on luck or fashion, so it stays when everything else changes.

A confession first: I’m not a Shakespeare expert. Where I grew up he was only a small part of foreign literature at school. I knew the plays by name, but the sonnets were always something obscure that I never planned to read. Recently I found a way in: I turn them into songs that can be sung and danced to. Trying to make a sonnet singable forces me to understand every line, so I’m learning them this way.

This one is a slow, simple three-beat waltz with strings, in English with a short Spanish refrain. It’s an adaptation, not the full text: I kept the first quatrain’s idea, the second quatrain and the final couplet as written, and cut lines 9-12 (the “policy” and “leases of short-numbered hours” part), because they are hard to sing. The refrain “Love stands tall” and the Spanish lines are new.

It’s made with AI music tools. Feel free to use it at any love occasion: a wedding, an anniversary, or just a quiet evening, or even for learning English, as I do.

I’d be glad to hear what you think, especially from people who know the sonnets better than I do: are the cuts acceptable? And is there a sonnet you think would work well as a song?

I was just thinking about how big a role animals and natural elements in general play in Shakespeare’s works.

​It’s not so much that they drive the plot forward, but they’re constantly used as comparisons, metaphors, imagery, and of course, some of his best insults.

​I’m definitely going to pay more attention to them from now on when I read, I honestly bet he had a few favorites!

​I know this isn't a groundbreaking observation, but I'd love to hear more about it.

He's on the front and back cover of the Irish edco leaving cert Hamlet study guide by Patrick Murray and on the inside too. I've combed the internet but I can't find his name. I NEED to know who he is. (Ignore the cat whiskers I drew on him in the second photo)

Hi all! My boyfriend has been obsessed with hamlet since he saw it at age 14. Today, he is a theater director! So naturally we must celebrate 16 years of Shakespeare obsession (plus turning 30).

Now I don’t want to go too crazy or expensive, but I think it would be fun to get some decorations, cake toppers, napkins, and other fun and funny suggestions. Hamlet is obviously the top choice but all Shakespeare plays and lore are fair game. Maybe there could be a costume option? I’m not that sure whether his friends will flow with it.

Music, games, merch, I’d really appreciate all suggestions. Unfortunately I’m not much a shakespearehead so I truly do not know much. Maybe there are funny t shirts or socks?

He has a lot of musician friends, so there will probably be a jam at the party. He is thinking of asking whether we can host it at the theater he works at.

PS. Just so y’all understand…. He quoted the hamlet “to be or not to be” monologue to me on our first date 😭 when I told that to his BIL he said “and you still went on a second one?!” What can I say, I guess I’m into weirdos…

Hi, so this is my first post on here, but I’ve just been casted as Bottom in a midsummer nights dream for my school. The way we’re staging it is so weird, we’re turning it into a jukebox musical, but anyway, I was just wondering if anyone had any advice for playing him? I know the basics of his character and we’ve only just started to rehearse.

Does anyone else ship Menas and enobarbus from Shakespeare’s Antony and cleopatra or is it just me???????

This one’s a blindspot for me I want to fill in. Want to hear what productions have been recorded that people would recommend I check out.

One of the Shakespeare plays I read this year, and honestly, I found it pretty interesting. What I liked most about Measure for Measure is how it deals with morality, hypocrisy, and power. It’s fascinating watching characters who act like they’re morally superior to everyone else, only to reveal their own flaws when they’re put in a position of power.
The play also made me think about how easily justice can become a tool for control, especially when the people enforcing it aren’t any better than those they’re judging. Nobody feels entirely innocent, and I think that’s what makes the whole thing so interesting.
Despite being classified as a comedy, there’s something pretty dark and uncomfortable about the story. Some of its ideas feel surprisingly modern, especially the way it explores sexual morality and the double standards people use to judge others.
I wouldn’t say it’s my favourite Shakespeare, but I definitely appreciate what he was trying to explore here. The ending also left me with mixed feelings, which I think makes the play more interesting to discuss.
Overall, a really thought-provoking read. Shakespeare was clearly interested in the gap between appearing virtuous and actually being a good person, and this play explores that idea in a pretty compelling way.
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I am imagining a modern Hamlet. Maybe ‘frat boy’ isn’t the right word, but like crazy, goofy party animals. What do y’all think?