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 36
... true a flame of liking , Wish chastly , and love dearely , that your Dian Was both her selfe and love , O then give pittie To her whose state is such , that cannot choose But lend and give where she is sure to loose ; That seekes not to ...
... true a flame of liking , Wish chastly , and love dearely , that your Dian Was both her selfe and love , O then give pittie To her whose state is such , that cannot choose But lend and give where she is sure to loose ; That seekes not to ...
Page 44
... true , that good wine needs no bush , ' tis true , that a good play needes no Epilogue . Yet to good wine they do use good bushes : and good playes prove the better by the helpe of good Epilogues : What a case am I in then , that am ...
... true , that good wine needs no bush , ' tis true , that a good play needes no Epilogue . Yet to good wine they do use good bushes : and good playes prove the better by the helpe of good Epilogues : What a case am I in then , that am ...
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... true obedience ; Too little payment for so great a debt . Such dutie as the subject owes the Prince , Even such a woman oweth to her husband : And when she is froward , peevish , sullen , sowre , And not obedient to his honest will ...
... true obedience ; Too little payment for so great a debt . Such dutie as the subject owes the Prince , Even such a woman oweth to her husband : And when she is froward , peevish , sullen , sowre , And not obedient to his honest will ...
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