Monologues from Literature
Subtitle: A Sourcebook for Actors
Contributors: Lee Richardson (Foreword); Marisa Smith (Editor); Kristin Graham (Editor); Mark Lamos (Introduction)
Edition: First Edition (9)
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine
Published: 1990-10
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780449905357
Copyright date: 1990
Description: Actors looking for new and exciting ways to audition will discover that some of the greatest acting scenes ever written appear not only in plays, but in novels, stories, even poetry, Monologues from Literature taps this virtually limitless wellspring, providing monologue adaptations for dramatic and comic audition pieces, conveniently organized in chronological order -- from Homer's The Odyssey to Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities.

Spanning the centuries, this sourcebook offers a variety of situations styles, and periods that you can tailor to any type of audition or acting class. You'll find characters that will allow you to display a great range of moods and emotions, including:

Francie in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Sancho Panza in Don Quixote

Anna in Anna Karenina

Rebecca in Ivanhoe

Uchendu in Things Fall Apart

Sissy in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary

Portnoy in Portnoy's Complaint

Felicitas in The Company of Women

The Poet in Les Fleurs du Mal

Sal in On the Road

Cocoa in Mama Day

And dozens more

Monologues from Literature also provides an invaluable reference chart that divides the selections into age and gender of character, setting and period, and genre (drama, seriocomedy, or comedy), so that you can quickly find a monologue appropriate for your needs.
Table of contents: title: The odyssey / Homer (700 BC); title: Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes (1605,1615); title: Candide / Voltaire (1759); title: Les liaisons dangereuses / Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782); title: Emma / Jane Austen (1816); title: Frankenstein / Mary Shelley (1818); title: Ivanhoe / Sir Walter Scott (1820); title: The Empress Catherine and the Princess Dashkof / Walter Savage Landor (1824); title: The last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper (1826); title: Comedies and satires / Edgar Allan Poe (1833-1840); title: Ethan Brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1837); title: Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens (1838); title: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte (1847); title: Wuthering heights / Emily Bronte (1847); title: Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert (1857); title: Les fleurs de mal / Charles Baudelaire (1857); title: A tale of two cities / Charles Dickens (1859); title: Silas Marner / George Eliot (1861); title: Notes from underground / Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864); title: O Captain! My captain! / Walt Whitman (1865); title: Crime and punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866); title: Behind a mask / Louisa May Alcott (1866); title: Through the looking glass / Lewis Carroll (1871); title: A season in hell / Arthur Rimbaud (1873); title: Rose in bloom / Louisa May Alcott (1876); title: Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy (1877); title: Treasure island / Robert Louis Stevenson (1883); title: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain (1884); title: Selected tales of Guy de Maupassant (1887-1890); title: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm / Kate Douglas Wiggin (1903); title: Patterns / Amy Lowell (1915); title: The rainbow / D.H. Lawrence (1915); title: Green mansions / W.H. Hudson (1916); title: New Orleans sketches / William Faulkner (1925); title: The portable Dorothy Parker (1926-1939); title: Lost horizon / James Hilton (1933); title: For whom the bell tolls / Ernest Hemingway (1940); title: The white cliffs / Alice Duer Miller (1940); title: Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty (1941); title: A tree grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith (1943); title: Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury (1953); title: On the road / Jack Kerouac (1955); title: Atlas shrugged / Ayn Rand (1957); title: Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe (1959); title: The applicant / Sylvia Plath (1963); title: Slaughterhouse five / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1969); title: The French lieutenant's woman / John Fowles (1969); title: Bullet park / John Cheever (1969); title: Mandala / Pearl S. Buck (1970); title: QB VII / Leon Uris (1970); title: Portnoy's complaint / Philip Roth (1967); title: The gazebo / Raymond Carver (1974); title: If Beale Street could talk / James Baldwin (1974); title: The boarding / Denis Johnson (1974); title: Even cowgirls get the blues / Tom Robbins (1976); title: The magus / John Fowles (1977); title: Just above my head / James Baldwin (1978); title: The women's room / Marilyn French (1977); title: Sophie's choice / William Styron (1979); title: Plain Lisa / Pamela White Hadas (1979); title: The last enchantment / Mary Stewart (1979); title: The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy / Douglas Adams (1979); title: The company of women / Mary Gordon (1980); title: The cities of the plain / Mona Van Duyn (1982); title: To make a dragon move / Pamels White Hadas (1983); title: Rosamund's vision / Stuart Mitchner (1983); title: Heartburn / Nora Ephron (1983); title: The old gringo / Carlog Fuentes (1985); title: Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis (1985); title: The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood (1985); title: One more Sunday / John D. MacDonald (1985); title: Gryphon / Charles Baxter (1985); title: The finishing school / Gail Godwin (1985); title: The accidental tourist / Anne Tyler (1985); title: The priest's confession / Ai (1986); title: Presumed innocent / Scott Turow (1987); title: A birthday poem for my little sister / Edward Field (1987); title: The bonfire of the vanities / Tom Wolfe (1987); title: Slaves of New York / Tama Janowitz (1988); title: Postcards from the edge / Carrie Fisher (1988); title: Mama Day / Gloria Naylor (1988)