Classical Monologues for Women

Introduction --
Classical Greek and Roman --
Electra from Electra / Sophocles (c. 415 BC) --
Polyxena from Hecuba / Euripides (c. 424 BC) --
Creusa from Ion / Euripides (c. 413 BC) --
Ismene from Thebans / Liz Lochhead (2003) after Sophocles and Euripides (5th century BC) --
Palaestra from Rudens / Plautus (c. 200 BC) --
Elizabethan and Jacobean --
Alice Arden from Arden of Faversham / Anon (1592) --
Margaret of Anjou from Henry III / William Shakespeare (1593) --
Julia from The two gentlemen of Verona / William Shakespeare (1593) --
Lady Anne from Richard III / William Shakespeare (1594) --
Adriana from The comedy of errors / William Shakespeare (1595) --
Lady Constance from King John / William Shakespeare (1596) --
Tamyra from Bussy D'Ambois / George Chapman (1604) --
Bellafront from The honest whore / Thomas Dekker (1604) --
Beatrice from The Dutch courtesan / John Marston (1604) --
Crispinella from The Dutch courtesan / John Marston (1604) --
Mother from A mad world, my masters / Thomas Middleton (1605) --
Lucretia Borgia from The devil's charter / Barnabe Barnes (1607) --
Hermione from The winter's tale / William Shakespeare (1610). Maria from The tamer tamed / John Fletcher (1619) --
Guiomar from The custom of the country / John Fletcher (1619) --
Hippolyta from The custom of the country / John Fletcher (1619) --
Beatrice from The changeling / Thomas Middleton and William Rowley (1622) --
Leonora from The devil's law-case / John Webster (1623) --
Lady Alworth from A new way to pay old debts / Philip Massinger (1625) --
French and Spanish Golden Age --
Casilda from Peribanez / Lope de Vega (c. 1605-12) --
Célimène from The misanthrope / Molière (1666) --
Henriette from The learned ladies / Molière (1672) --
Phedra from Phedra / Jean Racine (1677) --
Restoration and eighteenth century --
Margery from The country wife / William Wycherley (1675) --
Charlotte from She ventures, and he wins / Ariadne (1695) --
Bassima from The royal mischief / Delariviere Manley (1696) --
Lamira from The fatal friendship / Catherine Trotter (1698) --
Jane from The tragedy of Jane Shore / Nicholas Rowe (1714). Millwood from The London merchant / George Lillo (1731) --
Miss Stirling from The Clandestine marriage David Garrick/George Coleman (1766) --
Lydia Languish from The rivals / Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1775) --
Mrs Dangle from The critic / Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1779) --
Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries --
Mrs Tiffany from Fashion, or Life in New York / Anna Cora Mowatt (1845) --
Mrs Alving from Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen (1881) --
Miss Julie from Miss Julie / August Strindberg (1888) --
Madame X from The stronger / August Strindberg (1889) --
Jean from Alan's wife / Florence Bell and Elizabeth Robins (1893) --
Mrs Cheveley from An ideal husband / Oscar Wilde (1895) --
Yelena from Uncle Vanya / Anton Chekhov (1897) --
Alice from The dancer of death, Part 2 / August Strindberg (1901) --
Margaret from Fanny's first play / George Bernard Shaw (1911) --
Orinthia from The apple cart / George Bernard Shaw (1929) --
Bride from Blood wedding / Federico García Lorca (1933).