The First Folio Speeches for WomenPatrick Tucker A volume of monologues for women from the First Folio texts of Shakespeare's plays, from the famous to the less familiar. The texts are faithful to the layout, spelling and punctuation of the First Folio, providing clues for the performer to liberate meaning and emotional truth. Detailed notes on how to approach the texts complement the selections. |
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Page 46
... hand , That never meat sweet - savour'd in thy taste , Unlesse I spake , or look'd , or touch'd , or carv'd to thee . How comes it now , my Husband , oh how comes it , That thou art then estranged from thy selfe ? Thy selfe I call it ...
... hand , That never meat sweet - savour'd in thy taste , Unlesse I spake , or look'd , or touch'd , or carv'd to thee . How comes it now , my Husband , oh how comes it , That thou art then estranged from thy selfe ? Thy selfe I call it ...
Page 71
... hands below your husbands foote : In token of which dutie , if he please , My hand is readie , may it do him ease . FIRST FOLIO VERSE NOTES : The list at the beginning : ' Lord / King / Governour ' is illogical , as is the later list of ...
... hands below your husbands foote : In token of which dutie , if he please , My hand is readie , may it do him ease . FIRST FOLIO VERSE NOTES : The list at the beginning : ' Lord / King / Governour ' is illogical , as is the later list of ...
Page 100
... hand Gave signe for me to leave you : So I did , Fearing to strengthen that impatience Which seem'd too much inkindled ; and withall , Hoping it was but an effect of Humor , Which sometime hath his houre with every man . It will not let ...
... hand Gave signe for me to leave you : So I did , Fearing to strengthen that impatience Which seem'd too much inkindled ; and withall , Hoping it was but an effect of Humor , Which sometime hath his houre with every man . It will not let ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
Notes on the Speeches | 22 |
Alls Well that Ends Well | 34 |
Copyright | |
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acted as questions actors alliterations and assonances Anthony argument attitude audience behold blood Brutus Cæsar CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ capitalised words capitals character choose the end Cleopatra clue colons and semi-colons CRUZ The University Cymbeline doth double entendre Editors change end words eyes feare feminine ending FOLIO VERSE NOTES full stop Gentlemen of Verona give half-line hath heaven hee's heere Henrie Condell Henry the Sixt Hermia Honor Husbands IMOGEN John Heminge Juliet Julius Cæsar Lady long thoughts looke Lord Macbeth mid-line endings Midsommer Nights Dreame Mistris nice Note 18 Note 22 Note 9 Patrick Tucker pause peize Pisanio play poore PORTIA Pucke punctuation QUEENE MARGARET repetition rhyming couplet Richard Romeo soliloquy Sonne speake speech starts spelling Sunne sweet teare thee thine thinke thou art thou shalt thy selfe Tragedie University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA Warre whole speech Wife wretched