There is no such thing as perfect acting. All these speeches were just the best I could do on those filming days.
I challenge everyone (especially teachers) to turn on their microphones or cams, and try one or two.
Then try to improve them through practice and refinement. Then encourage, and inspire, your students.
Female Role Play Length
Why should I love this gentleman? Jailor’s Daughter Two Noble Kinsmen PDF (3:26)
How happy some o’er other some can be Helena A Midsummer Night’s Dream PDF (1:52)
She was a Votaress of my order Titania A Midsummer Night’s Dream PDF (1:10)
These are the forgeries of jealousy Titania A Midsummer Night’s Dream PDF (2:10)
The quality of mercy is not strained Portia The Merchant of Venice PDF (1:12)
Farewell. God knows when we shall meet again. Juliet Romeo and Juliet PDF (3:53)
Did my father strike my gentleman… Goneril King Lear PDF (1:28)
You’ve ungently, Brutus, stole from my bed. Portia Julius Caesar PDF (3:40)
I left no ring with her. What means this lady? Viola Twelfth Night PDF (2:01)
Nay, I would I were so anger’d Julia Two Gentlemen of Verona PDF (2:39)
Sir, spare your threats Hermione The Winter’s Tale PDF (2:05)
What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me? Paulina The Winter’s Tale PDF (2:16)
And why, I pray you? Rosiland As You Like It PDF (1:51)
But I do think it is their husbands’ faults Emelia Othello PDF (1:54)
Male
My Mistress with a monster is in love Puck A Midsummer Night’s Dream PDF (1:54)
When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer Bottom A Midsummer Night’s Dream PDF (2:21)
How now spirit, whither wander you? Puck A Midsummer Night’s Dream PDF (1:55)
Speak the speech, I pray thee Hamlet Hamlet’s advice to the players PDF (2:10)
What a rogue and peasant slave am I Hamlet Hamlet PDF (3:36)
To be or not to be Hamlet Hamlet PDF (2:32)
These few precepts in thy memory Polonius Hamlet PDF (2:21)
If it were done when tis done Macbeth Macbeth PDF (1:33)
Is this a dagger which I see before me? Macbeth Macbeth. PDF (3:10)
To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus. Macbeth Macbeth PDF (1:36)
My former speeches have but hit your thoughts Lennox Macbeth PDF (1:59)
Thou nature art my goddess Edmund King Lear PDF (1:53)
These late eclipses in the sun and moon Gloucester King Lear PDF (1:19)
This is the excellent foppery of the world Edmund, King Lear PDF (1:20)
I heard myself proclaimed Edgar King Lear PDF (1:34)
Now, entertain conjecture of a time 4th Chorus Henry V PDF (2:41)
Upon the King Henry V Henry V PDF (3:32)
St. Crispian’s Day speech Henry V Henry V PDF (2:50)
I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus Cassius Julius Caesar PDF (2:32)
Friends, Romans, countrymen Marc Antony Julius Caesar PDF (2:24)
Signor Antonio Shylock The Merchant of Venice PDF (1:50)
To bait fish withal Shylock The Merchant of Venice PDF (1:33)
All the world’s a stage . Jaques As You Like It PDF (2:26)
I do much wonder that one man… Benedick Much Ado About Nothing PDF (1:56)
Marry, sir, she’s the kitchen wench Dromio Two Gentlemen of Verona PDF (2:31)
Now is the winter of our discontent Richard lll Richard lll PDF (3:37)
Aye, Edward will use women honourably. Gloucester Henry Vl, Part 3 PDF (4:41)
My Liege, I did deny no prisoners. Hotspur Henry IV, Part 1 PDF (2:13)
Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes… Prospero The Tempest PDF (2:12)
A Mirror up to Nature - a show about Shakespeare and Elizabethan London. PDF (46.08)
Speaking verse (1:58)
Blocking monologues PDF (1:28)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas Ideas The book was a test to memorize perfectly. (11:20)
At 74, I still find exact oral memorization, then invention, then filming, a challenging process.
TEACHERS, the only real rule is be word-perfect.
Chanting Shakespeare like some poem is nonsense.
Will wrote for actors, talented, inventors of his words.