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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... tell the truth to the audience in the same way that they do to each other . A complex Soliloquy , packed with double meanings and verbal conceits , is hardly a person sincerely telling the audience what they are really thinking . When ...
... tell the truth to the audience in the same way that they do to each other . A complex Soliloquy , packed with double meanings and verbal conceits , is hardly a person sincerely telling the audience what they are really thinking . When ...
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... tell this , Who would beleeve me ? O perilous mouthes That beare in them , one and the selfesame tongue , Either of condemnation , or approofe , Bidding the Law make curtsie to their will , Hooking both right and wrong to th'appetite ...
... tell this , Who would beleeve me ? O perilous mouthes That beare in them , one and the selfesame tongue , Either of condemnation , or approofe , Bidding the Law make curtsie to their will , Hooking both right and wrong to th'appetite ...
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... Tell me what blessings I have here alive , That I should feare to die ? Therefore proceed : But yet heare this : mistake me not : no Life , ( I prize it not a straw ) but for mine Honor , Which I would free : if I shall be condemn'd ...
... Tell me what blessings I have here alive , That I should feare to die ? Therefore proceed : But yet heare this : mistake me not : no Life , ( I prize it not a straw ) but for mine Honor , Which I would free : if I shall be condemn'd ...
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