Twelfth Night: movie monologues to shadow
31 monologues from Twelfth Night. Original audio, one line at a time, with a pause to say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- C29 lines
Give me excess of it that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.
Orsino on musicTwelfth Night · 2012The speech swings from craving more music to calling it enough, all in one breath. - C15 lines
Confine?
Toby on confiningTwelfth Night · 2012He turns the word confine into a rebellion, shedding every rule in a rising, comic rhythm. - C14 lines
Thou knowest no less but all I have unclasped to thee, the book even of my secret soul.
Orsino's charge to CesarioTwelfth Night · 2012He moves from confession to command in one breath, sending love out like a siege order. - C113 lines
To faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will a amend.
The fool's syllogismTwelfth Night · 2012He builds a mock-syllogism so tidy it seems to prove the lady herself the fool. - C14 lines
Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty...
Cesario's rehearsed speechTwelfth Night · 2012He opens with stacked praise, then admits the whole speech is rehearsed and he is nervous. - C25 lines
Your lord does know my mind.
Olivia's refusalTwelfth Night · 2012She lists every virtue, then closes the door with one quiet sentence. - C25 lines
He left behind him myself and a sister.
Sebastian tells his storyTwelfth Night · 2012A quiet account that layers a father's death and a sister's drowning without raising its voice. - C26 lines
Oh, mistress mine, where are you roaming?
Feste's love songTwelfth Night · 2012The song soothes even as it teases, promising that lovers meet at the end. - C25 lines
Present mirth hath present laughter.
The carpe diem tuneTwelfth Night · 2012It moves from laughter to loss in a few lines, giving the revel a chill. - C24 lines
Sir Toby, I must be round with you.
The steward's ultimatumTwelfth Night · 2012A smooth official warning that delivers an eviction as if it were a favour. - C25 lines
Sweet, Sir Toby, be patient for tonight.
Maria plots her revengeTwelfth Night · 2012She calms the knight, then swears the scheme will work or she has no wit at all. - C24 lines
If ever thou shalt love, in the sweet pangs of it, remember me.
The duke on true loversTwelfth Night · 2012It sets lovers' fickleness against their one fixed image, a tidy paradox of desire. - C25 lines
Then let my love be younger than thyself, or thy affection cannot hold the bent.
The duke's rose speechTwelfth Night · 2012His advice about age dissolves into the rose image, tender and fatal at once. - C16 lines
There is no woman's sides can bide the beating of so strong a passion as love doth give my heart.
Orsino's passion speechTwelfth Night · 2012He builds his love into an ocean, and the more he swells it the more naked his vanity looks. - C16 lines
She never told her love,
A daughter's silent loveTwelfth Night · 2012Three images of decay and stone end in one question that turns a tale into an accusation. - C17 lines
Having been three months married to her sitting in my state...
Malvolio's count fantasyTwelfth Night · 2012He furnishes the fantasy down to the officers and the gowns, and detail is what makes the fall funny. - C218 lines
If this fall into thy hand, revolve.
The forged letterTwelfth Night · 2012The letter escalates from flattery to costume instructions, and each line tightens the trap. - C26 lines
I will be proud.
Malvolio's resolutionsTwelfth Night · 2012The run of I will vows builds a ladder, and the final line pretends to be the one clear-headed rung. - C27 lines
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool.
On playing the foolTwelfth Night · 2012It rises from a compliment to a maxim, so the clown is praised and the wise are warned at once. - C16 lines
Cesario, by the roses of the spring, by maidhood, honour, truth, and...
Olivia's confessionTwelfth Night · 2012It opens with oaths and closes with a proverb, so a private plea sounds like law. - C14 lines
By innocence I swear and by my youth I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth...
The page's refusalTwelfth Night · 2012Every vow is sincere and every vow hides the same secret, so the refusal is honest and false at once. - C26 lines
I could not stay behind you.
Antonio's vow to followTwelfth Night · 2012He calls his worry sharper than steel, making care sound like a weapon that drives him on. - C26 lines
Oh, oh, ho.
Malvolio's self-delusionTwelfth Night · 2012He reads every stare as a hint and grows more certain with each wrong guess. - C24 lines
Go hang yourselves, all.
Malvolio's exit curseTwelfth Night · 2012Four short lines harden into a curse, hiding humiliation under wounded pride. - C18 lines
Why, man, he's a very devil.
Andrew's cowardly boastTwelfth Night · 2012He builds his rival into a monster line by line, and the bragging is what gives his fear away. - C25 lines
But, oh, how vile an idol proves this god.
Antonio's betrayed speechTwelfth Night · 2012Betrayal turns into moral argument, and the restraint makes the hurt land harder. - C24 lines
Remain thou still in darkness.
Sir Topas passes sentenceTwelfth Night · 2012It fakes a church sentence from a joke, solemn enough to be absurd. - C25 lines
They praise me and make an ass of me.
Feste on enemies and friendsTwelfth Night · 2012Feste builds a topsy-turvy argument that flattery harms and honesty helps, then leaves it hanging. - C26 lines
But this your minion, whom I know you love and whom by heaven
The duke's murderous vowTwelfth Night · 2012It slides from jealous admission to a vow of killing, piled with animal images. - C24 lines
So comes it, lady, you have been mistook.
The twins explainedTwelfth Night · 2012Four lines untangle the mistaken identity and confirm the betrothal in one calm sweep. - C24 lines
Why, some are born great.
Feste on greatnessTwelfth Night · 2012Feste stacks three kinds of greatness, then quietly claims a part in the joke.