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100 great monologues from the neo-classical theater, edited by Jocelyn A. Beard

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Includes bibliographical references

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100 great monologues from the neo-classical theater

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edited by Jocelyn A. Beard

Monologue audition series

Selected from the Restoration period and the Age of Reason, these selections go from monologues for women, including All for love or the world well lost and The misanthrope, to monologues for men, including The beggar's opera and The school for scandal

All for love / John Dryden -- Andromache / Jean Racine -- The apprentice / Arthur Murphy -- The Beaux' Stratagem / George Farquhar -- The beggar's opera / John Gay -- The burial of Danish comedy / Ludvig Holberg -- Cato / Joseph Addison -- The careless husband / Colley Cibber -- Careless vows / Marivaux -- Cinna / Pierre Cornielle -- The clandestine marriage / George Coleman and David Garrick -- The confederacy / John Vanbrugh -- The contrast / Royall Tyler -- The country wife / William Wycherly -- The cheats / John Wilson -- Dione / John Gay -- The double inconstancy / MarivauxDouglas / John Home -- The fair penitent / Nicholas Rowe -- False delicacy / Hugh Kelly -- The false servant / Marivaux -- Fatal curiosity / George Lillo -- The fatal friendship / Catherine Trotter -- The iron chest / George Coleman -- Jean de France or Hans Frandsen / Ludvig Holberg -- Jeppe of the hill / Ludvig Holberg -- A journey to London / John Vanbrugh -- The Lancashire witches / Thomas Shadwell -- The learned women / Moliere -- The Libertine / Thomas Shadwell -- The London merchant / George Lillo -- Love in a village / Isaac Bickerstaff -- Love letters to a gentleman / Aphra BehnThe misanthrope / Moliere -- The mischievous machinations of Scapin / Moliere -- The miser / Moliere -- The mistake / John Vanbrugh -- The mourning bride / William Congreve -- Nathan the wise / Gotthold Ephrain Lessing -- Phedre / Jean Racine -- Pizarro / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Polly Honeycombe / George Coleman -- The prince of Parthia / Thomas Godfrey -- The projectors / John Wilson -- The provoked wife / John Vanbrugh -- Psyche debauched / Thomas Duffet -- The relapse / John Vanbrugh -- The rival queens / Nathaniel LeeThe rivals / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- The rovers / George Canning, John Hookman Frere and George Ellis -- The royal mischief / Mary Deharivier Manley -- The school for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- The scowrers / Thomas Shadwell -- Tancred and Sigismunda / James Thompson -- Three hours after marriage / John Gay -- The tragedy of Jane Shore / Nicholas Rowe -- The tragedy of Zara / Aaron Hill -- Venice preserved / Thomas Otway -- The virtuoso / Thomas Shadwell -- The wife of Bath / John Gay

One hundred great monologues from the neo-classical theatre