The Actor's Book of Monologues for Women

<b>A diverse collection of monologues featuring the voices of women through the ages </b> <p/>Drawn from poetry fiction diaries journals and documents of public record these selections although not originally intended for theatrical or cinematic performances offer unique dramatic opportunities for actors speakers students or anyone interested in women's studies.<br> Stefan Rudnicki has brought together selections from well-known as well as obscure authors providing a tremendous range of women's perspectives from a variety of sources: poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Emily Dickinson Christina Rossetti and Sappho among others; passages from Mary Shelley's journal the diaries of Anais Nin and the memoirs of Isadora Duncan; polemics from Mary Wollstonecraft and Joan of Arc as well as Susan B. Anthony's On Woman's Right to Suffrage; and selections from the novels of Emily and Charlotte Bronte Jane Austen Ursula K. LeGuin and others.