Monologues
Here are entered collections of monologues. Works on the monologue as a literary form are entered under the heading Monologue. Monologues recorded with incidental musical background are entered under Monologues -- Readings with music. Musical works in which spoken language is an integral part are entered under Monologues with music.
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The Overton Reciter: Character Sketches for Recitation (tenth thousand; New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell, ca. 1889), by Robert Overton, ed. by Alfred H. Miles
- Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Jill Dolan (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
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- The American Union Speaker, by John D. Philbrick (Gutenberg text)
- Burglar Bill, and Other Pieces for the Use of the Young Reciter (London: Bradbury, Agnew and Co., ca. 1888), by F. Anstey (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence (Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, 1797), by Caleb Bingham (HTML at Evans TCP)
- The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence (Boston: J. H. A. Frost et al, 1832), by Caleb Bingham
- Natural-History Plays, Dialogues and Recitations for School Exhibitions (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1885), by Louisa Parsons Stone Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Overton Reciter: Character Sketches for Recitation (tenth thousand; New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell, ca. 1889), by Robert Overton, ed. by Alfred H. Miles
- The American First Class Book: or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation (Boston : Charles Bowen, 1836, c1835), ed. by John Pierpont (page images at Pitt)
- Platform Pearls for Temperance Workers and Other Reformers: A Collection of Recitations and Other Selections for Entertainments and Public Meetings, Especially Adapted for Christian Endeavor Societies, Prohibition Clubs, Loyal Temperance Legions, Women's Christian Temperance Unions, Etc., Etc., Etc. (New York ;Toronto : Funk & Wagnall's, 1896), by Lilian M. Heath (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Distressing Dialogues (published as by Millay's "Nancy Boyd" persona; New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1924), by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
- Dialogues in French and English (Adapted From a Fourteenth-Century Book of Dialogues in French and Flemish) (EETS Extra Series #79; London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and co., 1900), by William Caxton, ed. by Henry Bradley
- Vices and Virtues, ed. by Ferdinand Holthausen (HTML at Michigan)
- Dialogues in French and English (Adapted From a Fourteenth-Century Book of Dialogues in French and Flemish) (EETS Extra Series #79; London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and co., 1900), by William Caxton, ed. by Henry Bradley
- Lucian's Dialogues Prepared for Schools, With Short Notes in Greek (in Greek, with English introduction; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), by Lucian of Samosata, ed. by W. H. D. Rouse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by David Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hiero, by Xenophon, trans. by Henry Graham Dakyns (Gutenberg text)
- The Select Dialogues of Lucian; To Which is Added, A New Literal Translation in Latin, With Notes in English (in Greek, Latin, and English; New York: G. Long, 1818), by Lucian of Samosata, ed. by Edward Murphy
- Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by David Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
- All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus of Roterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things (second edition; London: Printed for J.J. and P. Knapton, et al., 1733), by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by N. Bailey (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
- Imaginary Conversations (5 volumes; Boston: Roberts Bros., 1881-1883), by Walter Savage Landor, contrib. by John Forster
- first series (Classical dialogues): page images at Google; US access only
- second series (Sovereigns and statesmen): page images at Google; US access only
- third series (Literary men): page images at Google; US access only
- fourth series (More literary men, famous women, miscellaneous): page images at Google; US access only
- fifth series (More miscellaneous): page images at Google; US access only
- Imaginary Conversations (with notes; 6 volumes; London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1909), by Walter Savage Landor, ed. by Charles G. Crump, contrib. by John Forster
- Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection, by Walter Savage Landor (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Le Trésor de la Cité des Dames de Degré en Degré (in French), by Christine de Pisan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Heavenly Discourse (New York: Vanguard Press, c1927), by Charles Erskine Scott Wood, contrib. by Floyd Dell, illust. by Art Young and Hugo Gellert (page images at HathiTrust)
- 1601 (with commentary), by Mark Twain (HTML at archive.org)
- 1601, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
- Routledge's Comic Reciter (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, ca. 1867), ed. by J. E. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)