making it easier to find monologues since 1997. a complete database of shakespeare's monologues. all of them. the monologues are organized by play, then categorized by comedy, history and tragedy. you can browse and/or search. each monologue entry includes the character's name, the first line of the speech, whether it is verse or prose, and shows the act, scene & line number. each entry provides a link to the full text of the scene. you can download each monologue for printing, already double-spaced for scansion and transcription.