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Shakespeare's Monologues MCP Server

io.github.slshults/shakespeare-monologues
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Shakespeare's Monologues is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 9 tools. Last commit 27 Jul 2026.

Search Shakespeare monologues, plays, paraphrases and summaries from shakespeare-monologues.org

Uptime history 40 hours of history
40 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
9
Tools
read from the server
686 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 27 Jul 2026

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add shakespeare-monologues --transport http https://mcp.shakespeare-monologues.org/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shakespeare-monologues": {
      "url": "https://mcp.shakespeare-monologues.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.shakespeare-monologues]
url = "https://mcp.shakespeare-monologues.org/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shakespeare-monologues": {
      "url": "https://mcp.shakespeare-monologues.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shakespeare-monologues": {
      "url": "https://mcp.shakespeare-monologues.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 9

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

monologue
get_monologue
Fetch one monologue's catalogue entry by its numeric id. Follow the returned `url` for the full text.
get_monologue_of_the_day
The current 'Monologue of the Day' — the piece most recently posted to the site's social feeds.
all
list_all_monologues_for_a_character
List every monologue spoken by a given character (e.g. 'Hamlet', 'Rosalind'). Matches the character name exactly first, then as a substring.
monologues
search_monologues
Search Shakespeare monologues by free text (matches character, play, or first line) plus optional filters. Returns matches, each with a permalink `url`.
paraphrased
get_paraphrased_monologue
Fetch a monologue's full text alongside its modern-English, line-by-line paraphrase. The paraphrase is AI-generated (Claude) and may be null if it hasn't been generated yet — the `url` always has the monologue itself.
play
get_play_summary
Fetch an AI-generated summary of a play (e.g. 'Hamlet', 'The Tempest'). May be null if not generated yet.
plays
list_plays
List Shakespeare's plays with their classification (Comedy/History/Tragedy) and monologue counts.
random
random_monologue
Return one random monologue, with optional gender/play filters. Useful for a suggestion when the user is undecided.
scene
get_scene_summary
Fetch an AI-generated summary of the scene a monologue appears in (context for the speech). May be null if not generated yet.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.shakespeare-monologues.org/mcp streamable-http answering 618 ms 8 min ago

Shakespeare's Monologues — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Shakespeare's Monologues do?
It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_monologue, get_monologue_of_the_day, get_paraphrased_monologue, get_play_summary, get_scene_summary, list_all_monologues_for_a_character and 3 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Shakespeare's Monologues working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 686 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Shakespeare's Monologues?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Shakespeare's Monologues need an API key?
No. Shakespeare's Monologues completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Shakespeare's Monologues?
It answers our handshake in 686 ms on average, which is faster than 12% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Shakespeare's Monologues open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.