15-20 lines of Shakespeare Monologue?

Question

In my drama class,everyone is required to audition (for a grade)

and as a part of our audition,

we need 15-20 lines of shakespeare monologue.

It can be from any of his plays

I'm a 15 year old girl is that helps

Answer 1

A few monologues I found that are quite fun and/or good audition pieces:

A Midsummer Nights' Dream:

PUCK:

        If we shadows have offended,

        Think but this, and all is mended—

        That you have but slumbered here

        While these visions did appear.

        And this weak and idle theme,

        No more yielding but a dream,

        Gentles, do not reprehend.

        If you pardon, we will mend.

        And, as I am an honest Puck,

        If we have unearnèd luck

        Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,

        We will make amends ere long.

        Else the Puck a liar call.

        So good night unto you all.

        Give me your hands if we be friends,

        And Robin shall restore amends.

Or....

THISBE

Asleep, my love?

What, dead, my dove?

O Pyramus, arise!

Speak, speak. Quite dumb?

Dead, dead? A tomb

Must cover thy sweet eyes.

These lily lips,

This cherry nose,

These yellow cowslip cheeks

Are gone, are gone.

Lovers, make moan.

His eyes were green as leeks.

O Sisters three,

Come, come to me

With hands as pale as milk.

Lay them in gore,

Since you have shore

With shears his thread of silk.

Tongue, not a word.

Come, trusty sword.

Come, blade, my breast imbrue.(stabs herself)

And, farewell, friends.

Thus Thisbe ends.

Adieu, adieu, adieu.

(^Overly acted. Very melodramatic. :D)

Or...

As You Like It:

ROSALIND

It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue, but it is no

more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue. If it be

true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play

needs no epilogue. Yet to good wine they do use good

bushes, and good plays prove the better by the help of good

epilogues. What a case am I in, then, that am neither a good

epilogue nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a

good play. I am not furnished like a beggar; therefore to beg

will not become me. My way is to conjure you, and I'll

begin with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love

you bear to men, to like as much of this play as please you.

And I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women—

as I perceive by your simpering, none of you hates them—

that between you and the women the play may please. If I

were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards

that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths

that I defied not. And I am sure as many as have good

beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths will, for my kind

offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.

(Can be spoken very matter-of-factly. This one's quite fun, because you're actually speaking to the audience as opposed to yourself like most monologue happen.)

Have fun! Good luck on getting a good grade!

:D

Answer 2

I say go against gender and do a traditional male role monlogue Marc Antony from Julius Ceasar. It is 22 lines, maybe you could cut the first 2 if you needed to. It is from Act 3 Scene 1 after the Senators have killed Ceasar and Antony is left alone with the body.

Ant. O! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of

earth,

That I am meek and gentle with these butchers;

Thou art the ruins of the noblest man

rhat ever lived in the tide of times.

Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!

Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,

Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips,

To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue,

A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;

Domestic fury and fierce civil strife

Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;

Blood and destruction shall be so in use,

And dreadful objects so familiar,

That mothers shall but smile when they behold.

Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;

All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds:

And Cæsar's spirit, ranging for revenge,

With Ate by his side come hot from h**l,

Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice

Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war;

That this foul deed shall smell above the earth

With carrion men, groaning for burial.