"Monster in a Box," Mr. Gray's 13th and latest stage monologue, tells of how he sort of found that role and sort of wrote that book while enduring countless interruptions.

Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson and Mary-Louise Parker, among others, turn stage monologues into naturally flowing conversation.

"In stage monologues, Peter could saw it off by the yard," Mr. Cleese says.

When he completed the play he wrote her: "I've written in English a stage monologue for Pat Magee which I think you will like if no one else."

In the 1970s, Rame began writing plays (often stage monologues) of her own, such as Grasso è bello!

Times theme has been compared to Shakespeare's All the world's a stage monologue in As You Like It, which describes the seven ages of man: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, old age, and dementia.

In October 2003 Cummins wrote and performed a stage monologue for the Vocal Locals festival held at Seedy's Pub in Edmonton.

When Cook was encouraged to transfer these tales to stage monologues at Cambridge, he changed the name of his character to Mr Arthur Grole, then to E.L. Wisty.

One of the most prominent examples of a metaphor in English literature is the All the world's a stage monologue from As You Like It:

It's Lolita as a memory" and concluded that a stage monologue would be truer to the book than any film could possibly be.