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Find Monologues and Scenes
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Dramatic Arts students often need to find monologues or scenes to use
in classes or auditions. While the UConn Libraries have many complete
plays, it may be convenient for students to locate individual monologues
and scenes that have been collected in anthologies. The UConn Libraries
have a large number of these anthologies. Many have a specific theme (e.g.,
contemporary, classical theater, comic, or specific playwrights) or are
intended for a particular group of actors (e.g. women, men, younger, older,
actors of color, or scenes for two actors). Use the anthologies to identify
characters and situations that you can play. Don't just focus on the monologue.
Find the play! It might have other
appropriate monologues. Read and study the play, and get understanding
of your character and the overall dramatic situation.
Below are strategies for finding monologue anthologies in HOMER
or by using indexes.
Browse Monologue Anthologies
About half of the of the monologue and scene books are shelved in the PN
2080 sections of the Babbidge and Music/Drama Libraries.
The rest of the anthologies are shelved elsewhere, so you'll need
to search HOMER or the indexes below if you want to find them.
(Also, HOMER tells you what's checked out...you won't know
this if you only browse the shelves.)
Find Monologue and Scene Anthologies in HOMER
Search HOMER to
identify monologue and scene books owned by the UConn Libraries. Here
is basic information on How
to Search HOMER (PDF). Below are some specific strategies.
Strategy 1: try these Subject Heading searches in HOMER:
1. Get into HOMER (the
library catalog).
2. For type of search, click Subject Heading.
3. Under search terms, type one of the words below.
monologues (gives a long, well-organized list of monologue
books or works)
acting auditions (finds additional items, including scenes
books)
dialogues (finds a few good compilations mixed with lots
of historical material)
drama collections (finds a few more compilations)
Subject Heading searches are nice because they retrieve a well-organized
list.
Here is a more complete guide to Dramatic
Arts Subject Headings (PDF).
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Strategy 2: try Keyword Boolean searches (they let you limit results):
1. Get into HOMER (the
library catalog).
2. For type of search, click Keyword.
3. Under search terms, type one or more of the terms. (If you select Keyword
Boolean, use the operators
and, or, not between terms.) A question
mark after a root word finds all word endings. For example,
monolog? finds monolog,
monologs, monologue, monologues, monologo,
monologe, etc.
Example: acting scenes (Finds catalog records containing
both words. Good for finding scene anthologies.)
Example: acting auditions (Finds catalog records
containing both words.)
Example of Keyword Boolean search: monolog? or dialog? (Finds
catalog records containing either word.)
Tip 1: Limit your results to "books." (Use HOMER's
Limit To menu.)
Tip 2: For more precision, type skey in front of
each term (this tells HOMER to search subject keywords).
In the Advanced search, selecting Subject does the same
thing.
Example: skey
acting and skey auditions.
Tip 3: Use HOMER's Set More Limits or Post Limits
buttons to limit results to either the Babbidge or Music/Drama
Libraries (this only works with Keyword or Advanced searches).
Tip 4: Add the words women or men to your
Keyword search. (Be careful. This finds monologue books focusing
on just women or men, but many books have monologues for both.)
Tip 5: To get a list of the scene/monologue books that
are not PN2080, do a Keyword Boolean search on skey
monologues not pn2080 (also try limiting your results to books).
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Monologue & Scene Indexes (Print)
Browsing the monologue and scene books (explained above) can be time
consuming. To save time, try using an index to identify monologues by
genre, age, or gender, number of participants, etc.
- Actors Guide to Scenes. By Jane Grumbach. PN 2080 G784 1973
Music Ref.
- An Index to Monologs and Dialogs. By Norma Olin Ireland. PN
4305 M6 I64 1949 Babbidge Library
- More Actors Guide to Monologues. By Jane Grumbach and Robert
Emerson. PN 2080 .G785 1974 Music Ref.
(The original Actors Guide to Monologues is in UConn's Greater
Hartford Library PN4321 .E5 1974.)
- Play Index. Z 6781 P53 Babbidge & Music Ref. Does
not index monologues or scenes, but has "Cast Analysis" sections
that identify plays by type and number of actors (e.g., one person,
female). Other play indexes also do
this.
- The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook: An Actor's Guide to
Over 1,000 Monologues and Scenes from More than 300 Contemporary Plays.
By Ed Hooks. Z 5784 A27 H66 1994 Music Ref.
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Monologue & Scene Indexes (Web)
Colin's Movie Monologue Page
Students: consult instructors regarding the use of movie
monologues.
Diablo Drama (from Mission
Viejo H.S.) Has Web pages with links to monologue and scene Web pages
and books. Check HOMER to
see if UConn owns any of the books.
Dooley's.com:
Character (Cast Number) Search Search for plays by number/type of
cast members.
Drew’s Script-O-Rama
Monologues from movies. Students: consult instructors regarding the
use of movie monologues.
Free Monologue Directory
-- Not many entries, but does give age, type, and length.
Monologue Archive --
Browse by playwright, gender, or style (comic, dramatic, classical).
Also includes child/senior.
Playdatabase.com:
Find a Monologue (Loaded with pop-ups.) Search by character, author,
gender, age, monologue type, time period, length, and keyword in summary.
Users can add or correct database entries.
Play publishers or vendors (such as Dramatists
Play Service or Samuel
French) have Web sites that allow you to search for plays by cast
numbers.
Shakespeare's Monologues
Separate lists for men and women and divided by comedy, history and
tragedy. Includes character, first line, verse vs. prose, location in
the play, and a link to full text.
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