What about one of Juliet’s monologues from Romeo and Juliet?

By mbm244 on Jan 31, 2009

If you are looking for something they won’t have seen all that much, my suggestion is Isabella from Marlowe’s Edward II — it has drama, trauma, and some of the greatest ’sound effects’ of any dramatic poetry ever. The character would actually be just a little younger, but close enough.

ISABELLA. O miserable and distressed Queen!
Would, when I left sweet France, and was embarked,
That charming Circe, walking on the waves,
Had changed my shape, or at the marriage day
The cup of Hymen had been full of poison,
Or with those arms, that twined about my neck
I had been stifled, and not lived to see
The King my lord thus to abandon me!
Like frantic Juno will I fill the earth
With ghastly murmur of my sighs and cries;
For never doted Jove on Ganymede
So much as he on cursed Gaveston:
But that will more exasperate his wrath;
I must entreat him, I must speak him fair,
And be a means to call home Gaveston:
And yet he’ll ever dote on Gaveston;
And so am I for ever miserable.

By blueowlboy on Feb 2, 2009

Check out Portia’s speech in “The Merchant of Venice” when she’s trying to save her father in court.

By Curiosity Seeker on Feb 2, 2009

Little women , Yentl , Joan of Arche ,

By Herbert West III on Feb 2, 2009