The Classical Monologue - Women
~ Michael Earley & Philippa Keil (eds)

Fifty essential classical monologues by the great world dramatists

These great dramatic monologues - from all periods and styles, all varied in tone and genre - make an indispensable actor's companion for auditioning, rehearsing and performing

Contains extracts from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, Ford, Behn, Congreve, Wycherley, Sheridan, Vanburgh, Racine, Moličre, Calderón, Buchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Checkhov, Synge, Wilde and Shaw plus many more

Each monologue is accompanied by editors' commentaries and textual notes that point the beginner and the experienced actor towards the riches and challenges that lie waiting to be released on stage