The Classical Monologue: Men

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This volume aimed at men provides a collection of monologues that can be used by actors in auditions and contests. There are over 50 pieces from the drama of the Greeks and Romans, Elizabethans and Jacobeans, the Restoration and playwrights of the 19th and 20th centuries. A general introduction to the volume provides the reader with a fundamental grounding in how to act classical texts. The monologues have all been chosen for their actability, and appreciation of each is enhanced by the editors' commentaries and textual notes that guide both the beginner and the experienced actor.

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Professor Michael Earley is former Chief Producer of Plays for BBC Radio Drama in London. He was Chairman of the Theatre Studies Program at Yale University and taught acting, dramatic literature and playwriting there and at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, The Juilliard School's Acting Program, Smith College and various other schools and universities in America and Britain. He is currently the principal of the Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. Philippa Keil is a writer, editor and translator who trained at the Yale School of Drama. She graduated from Sussex University where she acted, directed and produced plays for the Frontdoor Theatre, and then worked professionally in London at Richmond's Orange Tree Theatre.