Shakespeare's Monologues MCP Server

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Shakespeare's Monologues is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. 24 installs a week from npm. It exposes 9 tools. Last commit 31 Aug 2026.

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

Installs per day peak 123 · avg 6

a month agotoday

Uptime history 51 days of history · worst day 87%

51 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

90 of 90 checks

Tools

read from the server

781 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

Shakespeare's Monologues missed 3 checks this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.shakespeare-monologues.org/mcp	streamable-http	answering	1899 ms	12 min ago

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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 90 of 90 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 781 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 781 ms on average, which is faster than 16% 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.

How many people use Shakespeare's Monologues?

The npm package shakespeare-monologues-mcp was installed 24 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

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.