Children’s Theatre · Children’s Shakespeare
About this collection
A collection of short speeches for young Players — ready to speak, learn by ear, and try in different voices. Everything on this page is complete; placeholder fragments from the source doc have been stripped.
Puck’s opening — MSND II.i
PUCK. How now, spirit! Whither wander you?
Puck’s mischief report — MSND II.i
PUCK. Thou speak’st aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night. I jest to Oberon, and make him smile ….
Puck’s farewell — MSND V.i
PUCK. If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended ….
Bottom’s dream — MSND IV.i
BOTTOM. I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was ….
Titania to the fairies — MSND II.i
TITANIA. Come, now a roundel and a fairy song ….
Hamlet to himself — Hamlet II.ii
HAMLET. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! ….
Feste’s song — Twelfth Night V.i
FESTE. When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain ….
TIP
If a speech names a plant you don’t know (cowslips, eglantine, love-in-idleness), ask your AI for a picture. Shakespeare wrote for people who could picture these things without being told; the picture is half the meaning.
Facilitator Notes
Never think or say the word memorize. Let Players learn these by ear, like songs. See Never Memorize at the top of this page for the full method.