{"id":797,"date":"2016-07-26T21:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T21:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgs.performerstuff.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2020-02-06T19:09:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T19:09:25","slug":"10-of-the-best-moliere-monologues-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/10-of-the-best-moliere-monologues-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"10 of the Best Moli\u00e8re Monologues for Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 of the Best Moli\u00e8re Monologues for Women<\/h3>\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>

Written by Ashleigh Gardner<\/p>\n

July 30, 2016<\/p>\n<\/font>

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Moli\u00e8re was a master of comedy, and Performer Stuff playwright,\u00a0Tim Mooney<\/span><\/a>, is a Moli\u00e8re aficionado! Mooney has skillfully crafted Moli\u00e8re\u2019s work into easy-to-understand, rhyming iambic pentameter, giving you the advantage in auditions that require classical pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n

Below, we’ve collected 10 monologues for women that are perfect for thespian competition or college auditions. What\u2019s more, all of these featured monologues are available on PerformerStuff.com.\u00a0Links\u00a0to each one are included with the description so you can easily find the perfect Moli\u00e8re monologue that\u2019s right for you!<\/p>\n \"\"<\/span>

Isabelle from The School for Husbands<\/i><\/h4>\n
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A monologue about a girl who tricks her guardian into delivering a letter to the young man she loves. Isabelle deceives Sganarelle, her guardian: she tells him that Val\u00e8re, the young man, is bothering her with his professions of affection, and she plans on Sganarelle becoming enraged over this fact. After Sganarelle becomes, predictably, furious, Isabelle lies and tells Sganarelle to return a letter Val\u00e8re\u2019s servant has dropped off for her. In reality, it is a letter she has written to Val\u00e8re that reveals her affection. This monologue features comedic, false anger and disgust — great for a skilled comedic actress.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dorine from Tartuffe <\/i><\/h4>\n
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A monologue about a comic servant who is disappointed and frustrated in the gullibility of her master. The servant Dorine, alone with Cl<\/span>\u00e9<\/span>ante (Orgon\u2019s brother-in-law), reveals to Cl<\/span>\u00e9ante Orgon\u2019s unfortunate gullibility since the arrival of Tartuffe: the sly, hypocritical, self-righteous faux-religious zealot. Dorine tells Cl\u00e9ante how Orgon spurns his own children, trusts Tartuffe with family secrets, and bestows sentiments of affection on Tartuffe even though Tartuffe is <\/span>obviously <\/span><\/i>a fraud trying to marry Orgon\u2019s daughter, Mariane. Tartuffe is nitpicky about religion to an extreme, and Dorine has had it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lisette from The Love Doctor<\/i><\/h4>\n
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A monologue about a comic maid who, playing a trick, tries to convince her master that his daughter is on her deathbed. Sganarelle keeps his daughter, Lucinde, from men, but Lucinde wants to get married to Cl\u00e9ante. Lisette, the maid, and Lucinde devise a plan to get Sganarelle to call a doctor, which will hopefully allow Cl\u00e9ante to sneak into the house disguised as a doctor. Lisette concocts a plan to win Sganarelle\u2019s sympathy, and rushes onstage with a tale of Lucinde\u2019s crisis: she has fainted and is in desperate need of a doctor!<\/span><\/p>\n

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C\u00e9lim\u00e8ne from The Misanthrope<\/i><\/h4>\n
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A monologue about a young woman, completely in control, who teases, shames, and threatens a man who loves her. (Think a \u201cRegina George from <\/span>Mean Girls<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span> type.) C\u00e9lim\u00e8ne, an unapologetic flirt, is a popular and beautiful lady of French society who is courted by four men, all of whom she eventually rejects because she deems herself better than them. One of the suitors, Alceste, has called her out on her nonsense, and in a moment of realizing her power over him and her power as a woman, she belittles him, calls him jealous, and stands up for her behavior\u2026even if she refuses to deny any of his accusations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Zerbinette from The Schemings of Scapin<\/i><\/h4>\n
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A monologue full of dramatic irony about a girl telling a story to her boyfriend\u2019s father — the one person who mustn\u2019t hear it. And she laughs the entire time. Zerbinette, in love with L\u00e9andre, runs into G\u00e9ronte, L\u00e9andre\u2019s father (whom she has never met before). She\u2019s been with a band of gypsies and was recently rescued by her brother with money he obtained from Scapin…who swindled the money from G\u00e9ronte. G\u00e9ronte has plans to marry his son to someone other than Zerbinette, and as Zerbinette tells the tale of her rescue from the gypsies and her subsequent engagement to L\u00e9andre, G\u00e9ronde becomes angrier and angrier. (Reportedly, amid the original play\u2019s company was an actress with an infectious laugh, and Moli\u00e8re would write scenes such as this, knowing that the audience could not help but laugh along). In this instance, the performer faces a secondary challenge of laughing while yet maintaining the rhythm of the iambic pentameter.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Toinette from The Imaginary Invalid<\/i><\/h4>\n
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A monologue about a woman who comically pretends to be an experienced male doctor. Argan is a hypochondriac (a person who always thinks they are sick). Angelique, Argan\u2019s daughter, wants to marry the handsome <\/span>Cl\u00e9ante, but Argan wants her to marry the boring doctor, Thomas Diaforious (so he can have free medical care). <\/span>Toinette, the ingenious maid, sides with Angelique, and comes up with a plan to trick Argan into believing that all of the other doctors, including Thomas, are quacks. To convince him, she impersonates a doctor with the slightest of disguises, which she changes instantaneously backstage, returning as herself. Here (as the \u201cdoctor\u201d), she boasts about her experience as a doctor and flatters Argan, telling him that he is a world marvel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Magdelon from The Precious Young Maidens<\/i><\/h4>\n
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A monologue about a girl who professes her love to a man she thinks is a courtier…when he is really the servant of a man she rejected. Magdelon and her cousin, Cathos, have come to Paris to find love and adventure. Gorgibus, Magdelon\u2019s father, has set her and her cousin up with two men, LaGrange and Du Croisy, but both girls reject the men\u2019s advances because they consider the men to be unrefined and boring. When another man, Mascarille, tries to woo Magdelon, she falls in love with him. Here, Magdelon gushes over Mascarille, who has offered to set Magdelon and Cathos up as hostesses in a salon for the appreciation of the arts, attended by popular artistic luminaries. In fact, Mascarille is a servant, sent by LaGrange to fool these women. Magdelon responds enthusiastically to his proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Henriette from The Learned Ladies<\/i><\/h4>\n
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A monologue about a girl who must flatter her sister so that the conversation doesn\u2019t end up addressing the topic of an ex-boyfriend. Henriette and Armande are sisters. Henriette is dating Clitandre, Armande\u2019s ex, but Armande doesn\u2019t yet know it. Henriette, a girl who loves simple things and seeks a simple life of marriage, flatters her sister by telling her that she is of great intelligence and asks Armande to admit the worth of her own mind. Though Henriette may modestly eschew philosophy, between her and Armande, she is obviously the more clear-headed. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Lucinde from The Doctor in Spite of Himself<\/i><\/h4>\n
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A monologue about a young girl who breaks her silence to tell her father that she\u2019ll marry whoever she wants. Lucinde, <\/span>G\u00e9ronte\u2019a daughter, has been told she must marry a rich man she doesn\u2019t love and has mysteriously gone mute. G\u00e9ronte hires Sganarelle, a man who disguises himself as a doctor, to treat Lucinde. After Sganarelle discovers that Lucinde is unhappy about her betrothal, Sganarelle helps sneak L\u00e9andre, Lucinde\u2019s lover, into the house as an apothecary. When Lucinde is <\/span>caught speaking to <\/span>L\u00e9andre<\/span>, she finally releases a torrent of words, saying, perhaps, what we wish every <\/span>ing\u00e9nue<\/span> of Moli\u00e8re\u2019s plays to say to her father.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Agnes from The School for Wives<\/i><\/h4>\n
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A comedic monologue about a girl who tries to defend herself from her tyrannical father. Agnes sees a man, Horace, from her balcony, and being polite continuously bows to him as he bows to her. She invites him in, thinking that it is the polite thing to do, and Horace bestows affection on her. Agnes, having been kept ignorant of the scandalous intrigues or sensual desires of man by her guardian, Arnolphe, does not understand the reason why she is restricted from seeing a man in their home, especially when her actions were so innocent. When Arnolphe complains of her misdeed, she explains the innocence of her encounter with Horace, the man she saw, and the intended virtue of her action.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ashleigh Gardner received her AA in Theatre\/Drama\/Dramatic Arts from Valencia College and her Bachelors Degree in English Literature and Masters Degree in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies from the University of Central Florida. She is a playwright and an actor.<\/i><\/b><\/h5>\n
Timothy Mooney<\/strong>\u00a0is the author\/adaptor of\u00a0<\/em>Breakneck Hamlet\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Shakespeare’s Histories; Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace!\u00a0new one-man plays which “crack the code” on Shakespeare’s most challenging plays, making them accessible to audiences everywhere. Mooney’s acting textbook\u00a0<\/em>Acting at the Speed of Life\u00a0is breathing life into stylistic performance at high schools and colleges, while his\u00a0<\/em>The Big Book of Moliere Monologues\u00a0has given actors everywhere a new resource for comic classical auditions. Over fifteen years, Tim has performed his very first one-man play,\u00a0<\/em>Moliere than Thou,\u00a0over 500 times, giving some hundred thousand students their first introduction to Moliere. He also presents one monologue from every Shakespeare play in his one-man show,\u00a0<\/em>Lot o’ Shakespeare, along with his collection of some of the most amazing speeches ever, in\u00a0<\/em>The Greatest Speech of All Time. Mooney is the former founder and editor of\u00a0<\/em>The Script Review\u00a0and also the former Artistic Director of Chicago’s Stage Two Theatre, where he produced nearly fifty plays in five years, including many new versions of the plays of Moliere, featuring Mooney’s impish sense of rhyme. These seventeen iambic pentameter variations of the plays (most published by\u00a0Playscripts, Inc.<\/a>), have been produced over 150 times, around the world. These productions have gone on to high school competition finals around the U.S., while his\u00a0<\/em>Doctor in Spite of Himself, took third place in the Scottish Community Drama Association National Festival. Mr. Mooney continues to present six one-man shows across North America, and recently added a new rhymed version of\u00a0<\/em>The Servant of Two Masters\u00a0to his catalogue!<\/em><\/h5>\n

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