Othello Monologues
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Ever been overlooked for a promotion? Been made to feel jealous of a potentially cheating spouse? Plotted revenge on your boss? Yes? Then you’ll love this compilation of Othello monologues from one of Shakespeare’s most action packed tragedies. Weather you’re a villainous aspiring Iago, a philosophizing Emilia, a bewildered and earnestly loving wife like Desdemona or a blinded by jealous rage, Othello, you’ll surly find a speech to suit your word to the action and action to the word!
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Have fun looking through these 12 Othello Monologues we have picked for you to work on. Have a great rehearsal!
01
Iago
Othello · William Shakespeare
Men 20s–50s Classical · verse Play About 1:30
“Three great ones of the city, In personal suit to make me his lieutenant, Off-capp’d to him: and, by the faith of man, I know my price, I am worth…”
02
Iago
Othello · William Shakespeare
Men 20s Classical · verse Play About 1:30
“O, sir, content you; I follow him to serve my turn upon him: We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow’d. You shall mark Many a…”
03
Roderigo
Othello · William Shakespeare
Men 20s–40s Classical · verse Play About 1:15
“Sir, I will answer any thing. But, I beseech you, If’t be your pleasure and most wise consent, As partly I find it is, that your fair daughter, At this…”
04
Othello
Othello · William Shakespeare
Men 20s–50s Classical · verse Play About 2:45
“Her father loved me; oft invited me; Still question’d me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have passed. I ran it…”
05
Iago
Othello · William Shakespeare
Men 20s–50s Classical · verse Play About 1:30
“Thus do I ever make my fool my purse: For I mine own gain’d knowledge should profane, If I would time expend with such a snipe. But for my sport…”
06
Desdemona
Othello · William Shakespeare
Women 20s–50s Classical · verse Play About 1:30
“Why, then, to-morrow night; or Tuesday morn; On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn: I prithee, name the time, but let it not Exceed three days: in faith, he’s…”
07
Desdemona
Othello · William Shakespeare
Women 20s–50s Classical · verse Play About 1:00
“O good Iago, What shall I do to win my lord again? Good friend, go to him; for, by this light of heaven, I know not how I lost him…”
08
Emilia
Othello · William Shakespeare
Women 20s–50s Classical · verse Play About 1:15
“But I do think it is their husbands’ faults If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties, And pour our treasures into foreign laps, Or else break out…”
09
Iago
Othello · William Shakespeare
Men 20s–50s Classical · verse Play About 1:45
“That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it; That she loves him, ’tis apt and of great credit: The Moor, howbeit that I endure him not, Is of a…”
10
Iago
Othello · William Shakespeare
Men 20s–50s Classical · verse Play About 1:30
“Touch me not so near: I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio; Yet, I persuade myself, to speak the…”
11
Iago
Othello · William Shakespeare
Men 20s–50s Classical · verse Play About 1:45
“And what’s he then that says I play the villain? When this advice is free I give and honest, Probal to thinking and indeed the course To win the Moor…”
12
Othello
Othello · William Shakespeare
Men 20s–50s Classical · verse Play About 2:00
“Had it pleased heaven To try me with affliction; had they rain’d All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head. Steep’d me in poverty to the very lips…”
13
Othello
Othello · William Shakespeare
Men 20s–50s Classical · verse Play About 1:30
“Behold, I have a weapon; A better never did itself sustain Upon a soldier’s thigh: I have seen the day, That, with this little arm and this good sword, I…”
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