Richard III
Was ever woman in this humoured woo’d?
Was ever woman in this humoured won?
I’ll have her, but ill not keep her long.
What! I, that kill’d her husband and his father,
To take her in her heart’s extremest hate,
With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,
The bleeding witness of her hatred by;
Having God, her conscience, and these bars
Against me,
And nothing to take back my suit at all,
But the plain devil and dissembling looks,
And yet to win her, all the world to nothing!
Ha!
Hath she forgot already that brave prince,
Edward, her lord, whom I, some three months since,
Stabb’d in my angry mood at Tewksbury?
A sweeter and lovelier gentleman,
Framed in the prodigality of nature,
Young, valiant, wise, and, no doubt, right royal
The spacious word cannot gain afford,
And will she yet debase her eyes on me,
That cropp’d the golden prime of this sweet prince,
And made her widow to a woful bed?
On me, whose not all equals Edwards moiety?
On me, that halt and am unshapen thus,
My dukedom to a beggarly denier,
I do mistake my all this while:
Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot,
Myself to be a marvelous proper man
I’ll be at charges for a looking-glass,
And entertain some score or two of tailors,
To study fashions to adorn my body:
Since I am crept in favour with myself,
Will maintain it with some little cost.
But first ill turn yon fellow in this grave;
And then return lamenting to my love.
Shine out, fair son, until i have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass.
___________________________________________________________________________
I have specifically chosen these audition speeches/monologues to reflect on myself and typical roles i like to play such as villains, such as Richard III, and then i have chosen others to directly contrast the other speeches so I can get to demonstrate a wide variety of different roles I can play and completely different vibes.
NickForstmanClarendon 