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Twelfth Night: Monologues

Cesario realizes Olivia has a crush on [him].

Joanna Lumley speaks Viola's soliloquy from Twelfth Night.

Read the full text for this speech.

Nigel Broome as Malfolio in Twelfth Night

Shakespeare’s language: If music be the food of love

Language analysis "If music be the food of love" Shakespeare Resource Centre

Judi Dench as Viola in Twelfth Night

Judi Dench rehearsing the Ring soliloquy in Twelth Night, Act 2, Scene 2

Orsino's Monologue

Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 1 Scene 1, Orsino: "If music be the food of love..." - BBC