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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... heaven and you , That before you , and next unto high heaven , I love your Sonne : My friends were poore but honest , so's my love : Be not offended , for it hurts not him That he is lov'd of me ; I follow him not By any token of ...
... heaven and you , That before you , and next unto high heaven , I love your Sonne : My friends were poore but honest , so's my love : Be not offended , for it hurts not him That he is lov'd of me ; I follow him not By any token of ...
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... Heaven , as small a drop of pittie As a Wrens eye ; fear'd Gods , a part of it . The Dreame's heere still : even when I wake it is Without me , as within me : not imagin'd , felt . ― A headlesse man ? The Garments of Posthumus ? I know ...
... Heaven , as small a drop of pittie As a Wrens eye ; fear'd Gods , a part of it . The Dreame's heere still : even when I wake it is Without me , as within me : not imagin'd , felt . ― A headlesse man ? The Garments of Posthumus ? I know ...
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... Heaven , That Henries death , my lovely Edwards death , Their Kingdomes losse , my wofull Banishment , Should all but answer for that peevish Brat ? Can Curses pierce the Clouds , and enter Heaven ? Why then give way dull Clouds to my ...
... Heaven , That Henries death , my lovely Edwards death , Their Kingdomes losse , my wofull Banishment , Should all but answer for that peevish Brat ? Can Curses pierce the Clouds , and enter Heaven ? Why then give way dull Clouds to my ...
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