Introduction Female Characters and Speeches Too Often Used for Audition Shakespeare - the Actors' Writer The Lives and Times of Shakespeare's People Auditioning Shakespeare The Speeches: -Countess from All's Well that Ends Well (Act 1 Sc. 3) - Diana from All's Well that Ends Well (Act 4, Sc. 2) -Cleopatra from Antony and Cleopatra (Act 1, Sc. 3) - Cleopatra from Anthony and Cleopatra (Act 1, Sc. 5) -Courtesan from The Comedy of Errors (Act 4, Sc. 3) -Abbess from The Comedy of Errors (Act 5, Sc. 1) -Volumnia from Coriolanus (Act 1, Sc. 3) -Valeria from Coriolanus (Act 1, Sc. 3) -Queen from Cymbeline (Act 1, Sc. 3) -Doll Tearsheet frmo Henry IV, part 2 (Act 2, Sc. 4) -Countess from Henry VI, part 1 (Act 2, Sc. 3) -Duchess of Gloucester from Henry VI, part 2 (Act 1, Sc. 2) -Lady Gray from Henry IV, part 3 (Act 4, Sc. 4) -Anne from Henry VIII (Act 2, Sc. 3) -Queen Katherine from Henry VIII (Act 3, Sc. 1) -Queen Katherine from Henry VIII (Act 4, Sc. 2) -Calphurnia from Julius Caesar (Act 2, Sc. 2) -Cordelia from King Lear (Act 4, Sc. 7) -Mote from Love's Labour's Lost (Act 3, Sc. 1) -Princess from Love's Labour's Lost (Act 5, Sc. 2) -Rosaline from Love's Labour's Lost (Act 5, Sc. 2) -Mariana from Measure for Measure (Act 5, Sc. 1) -Jessica from The Merchant of Venice (Act 2, Sc. 6) -Mistress Ford from The Merry Wives of Windsor (Act 2, Sc. 1) -Mistress Page from The Merry Wives of Windsor (Act 2, Sc. 1) -Mistress Quickly from The Merry Wives of Windsor (Act 5, Sc. 5) -Hero from Much Ado About Nothing (Act 3, Sc. 1) -Dionyza from Pericles (Act 4, Sc. 1) -Dionyza from Pericles (Act 4, Sc. 3) -Duchess of Gloucester from Richard II (Act 1, Sc. 2) -Duchess of Gloucester from Richard II (Act 1, Sc. 2) -Queen Isabel from Richard II (Act 5, Sc. 1) -Duchess of York from Richard II (Act 5, Sc. 2) -Duchess of York, from Richard II (Act 5, Sc. 3) -Queen Elizabeth from Richard III (Act 4, Sc. 4) -Duchess of York from Richard III (Act 4, Sc.4) -Lady Capulet from Romeo and Juliet (Act 1, Sc. 3) -Ariel from The Tempest (Act 1, Sc. 2) -Tamora from Titus Andronicus (Act 1, Sc. 1) -Lavinia from Titus Andronicus (Act 2, Sc. 3) -Tamora from Titus Andronicus (Act 4, Sc. 4) -Cressida from Troilus and Cressida (Act 1, Sc. 2) -Cressida from Troilus and Cressida (Act 3, Sc. 2) -Silvia from The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Act 4, Sc. 3) -Silvia from The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Act 5, Sc. 4) -First Queen from The Two Noble Kinsmen (Act 1, Sc. 1) -Emilia from The Two Noble Kinsmen (Act 1, Sc. 3) -Emilia from The Winter's Tale (Act 2, Sc.2) -Perdita from The Winter's Tale (Act 4, Sc. 4) Bibliography
