Sherlock Holmes, Androcles and the Lion & Hamlet. 3 x Monologues

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SHERLOCK HOLMES: By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Adapted for ScriptsandSketches.com

The detective SHERLOCK HOLMES, his friend Dr Watson and Inspector Lestrade are investigating the mysterious death of a man, McCarthy, at Bascombe Valley in the English countryside. The man’s son, young McCarthy, is accused of his father ‘ s murder. Here, Holmes is examining the scene of the crime.

Androcles And The Lion: By George Bernard Shaw – Adapted for Scriptsandsketches.com

The scene takes place in ancient Rome. Androcles, a recently converted Christian, and his wife MEGAERA are running away from persecution. Their route has taken them into the depths of a forest. Andrae/es is a small, thin, ridiculous little man who might be any age. His wife is rather handsome, pampered, well fed and in the prime of life. She has nothing to carry and has a stout stick to help her along. She does not share his beliefs and did not want to leave the comforts of city life. She is tired and exhausted by their journey and furious with her husband.

Hamlet: By William Shakespeare – Adapted For ScriptsandSketches.com

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, has professed his love to OPHELIA, the daughter of Polonius, the Lord Chamberlain. He has begun to show signs of mental instability, however, since the death of his father, his mother’s remarriage and visitations from his father’s ghost. In this scene, Ophelia is clearly frightened and has come to tell her father about Hamlet’s strange behaviour.

Sherlock Holmes:

SHERLOCK HOLMES: (Running round , like a dog picking up a scent , then stopping) What did you go in the pool for, Lestrade?… No, don’t answer that. I have no time. That left foot of yours with its inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it. There it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all have been, had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo and trampled all over it.

Androcles and the Lion:

MEGAERA: (Suddenly throwing down her stick) I won’t go another step. I don’t believe a word of it. You are always threatening me with wild beasts to make me walk the very soul out of my body when I can hardly drag one foot before another. We haven’t seen a single lion yet.

Hamlet:

OPHELIA: O my lord , my lord , I have been so affrighted. My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbrac’d, No hat upon his head, his stockings foul’d, Ungarter’d and down-gyved to his ankle,Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors, he comes before me.