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These suggested monologues have been provided by The English-Speaking Union of the United States. If students choose monologues not included on this list, they must make sure that their selections do not exceed 25 lines. Students who perform longer monologues will be disqualified.
| Play | Character | Lines | Start | Finish |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Puck | 2.1.42-58 | Thou speakest aright | here comes Oberon. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Oberon | 2.1.249-67 | I know a bank | first cock crow. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Helena | 3.2.145-61 | O spite! O hell! | all to make you sport. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Theseus | 5.1.4-22 | Lovers and madmen | suppos'd a bear. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | Helen | 1.1.79-98 | O were that all | Who comes here? |
| As You Like It | Duke Senior | 2.1.1-17 | Now my co-mates | in everything. |
| As You Like It | Phebe | 3.5.8-27 | I would not be thy executioner | That can do hurt. |
| The Comedy of Errors | Adriana | 2.1.87-101 | His company must do | I am but his stale. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | Berowne | 5.2.315-34 | This fellow pecks | honey-tongued Boyet. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | Rosalind | 5.2.841-54 | Oft have I heard | impotent to smile. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | Falstaff | 3.5.3-18 | Go fetch me a quart of sack | a mountain of mummy. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | 2.3.22-36 | May I be | in the arbor. |
| The Merchant of Venice | Portia | 4.1.184-202 | The quality of mercy is not strain’d | the deeds of mercy. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | Petruchio | 4.1.190-209 | My falcon now | headstrong humor. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | Katherina | 5.2.161-79 | I am ashamed | do him ease. |
| The Tempest | Caliban | 1.2.330-44 | I must eat my dinner | the rest o' th' island. |
| The Tempest | Prospero | Epilogue | Now my charms | set me free. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Julia | 1.2.102-19 | O hateful hands | into the raging sea. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Proteus | 2.4.192-210 | Even as one heat | my reason's light; |
| The Winter's Tale | Leontes | 2.1.36-52 | How blest am I | to play at will. |
| The Winter's Tale | Hermione | 3.2.91-108 | Sir, spare your threats | I should fear to die? |
| Twelfth Night | Viola | 2.2.17-36 | I left no ring with her | What will become of this? |
| Twelfth Night | Sebastian | 4.3.1-20 | This is the air | I perceive she does. |