Recommended Scripts
Scenes and Monologues for the Vienna Shakespeare Acting Class
I've divided these scripts into the following sections for ease of use, but please feel free to
bring ANY script, regardless of age, gender or anything else!
Each recommendation is linked directly to that scene, in a free online script by Folger Shakespeare
Vienna Shakespeare - Vienna Acting Classes - Catrina Poor
Shakespeare Acting Classes - Shakespeare Club - Austrian Shakespeare Society - Acting Classes Vienna - Shakespeare Vienna - Acting Club
WHAT DO I DO ONCE I'VE CHOSEN?
You'll have the best experience if you bring something in that you've had time to prepare. Get familiar with the play! Know where your character is coming from, what situation they're dealing with, what they want..... Have an opinion about what's going on in your play/ sonnet!
Of course you don't need to know everything - and don't worry at all if you don't have time to get memorized. This class is about having fun, learning and having fabulous discussions about drama, history, character, human behavior and everything else that makes Shakespeare great!
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Choose any character you like - Don't worry about Gender, Age , etc
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Feel free to prepare more than one scene! You get to decide if you want to work on one scene/ sonnet for the whole course, or if you prefer to work on a different scene/ sonnets each week.
The Comedies
Meet The Team
WOMENS COMEDY
Romeo & Juliet Act 1 Scene 3
Nurse: Even or odd of all days in the year,
Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.
Romeo and Juliet (Act 2 Scene 5)
Juliet: The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse;
Much ado about Nothing (Act 1 Scene 1)
BEATRICE I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick, nobody marks you.
BENEDICK
What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet
living?
Meet The Team
MENS COMEDY
Benedick: This can be no trick: the conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of this from Hero.
Two Gentlemen Of Verona Act 2 Scene 3
LANCE Nay,’twill be this hour ere I have done weeping. All the kind of the Lances have this very fault.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Act 3 Scene 2)
Puck: My mistress with a monster is in love.
Our Clients
The History Plays
Meet The Team
WOMENS HISTORY
Richard III Act 4 Scene 4
QUEEN MARGARET:
I called thee then vain flourish of my fortune;
Coriolanus Act 5 Scene 3
VOLUMNIA:
Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment
And state of bodies would bewray what life
We have led since thy exile.
Henry IV, Part Two Act 2 Scene 3
Lady Percy:
O yet, for God’s sake, go not to these wars!
Henry VI, Part One Act 5 Scene 4
Joan La Pucelle:
First, let me tell you whom you have condemn’d:
Not me begotten of a shepherd swain,
But issued from the progeny of kings;
Antony & Cleopatra Act 4 Scene 15
Cleopatra: No more but e’en a woman, and commanded
By such poor passion as the maid that milks
And does the meanest chares.
Julius Caesar Act 2 Scene 1
Portia:
Is Brutus sick, and is it physical
To walk unbraced and suck up the humours
Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick?
Meet The Team
MENS HISTORY
Antony and Cleopatra (Act 4 Scene 12)
All is lost!
This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me.
Coriolanus (Act 3 Scene 3)
You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
King Richard III (Act 1 Scene 1)
Now is the winter of our discontent
​Made glorious summer by this son of York;
King Richard II (Act 5 Scene 5)
I have been studying how I may compare
This prison where I live unto the world;
Henry V (Act 3 Scene 1)
Henry: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead.
Julius Caesar (Act 3 Scene 2)
Antony: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears:
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The Tragedies
Meet The Team
WOMENS TRAGEDY
Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5)
Lady Macbeth: The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements.
Othello (Act 4 Scene 3)
Emilia: Yes, a dozen, and as many to th’ vantage as
Would store the world they played for.
Hamlet (Act 4 Scene 7)
Queen Gertrude: There is a willow grows askant the brook
Hamlet (Act 3 Scene 1)
Ophelia: O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!
King Lear (Act 1 Scene 1)
Cordelia: Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty
According to my bond; no more nor less.
Meet The Team
MENS TRAGEDY
Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 7)
Macbeth: If it were done, when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly:
The Merchant of Venice
(Act 3 Scene 1)
Shylock: Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Hamlet (Act 1 Scene 2)
Hamlet: O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Hamlet (Act 3 Scene 1)
Hamlet: To be, or not to be, that is the question:
King Lear (Act 3 Scene 2)
Lear: Blow winds and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow!
Othello (Act 2 Scene 1)
Iago: That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it,