Shakespeare's Monologues MCP Server

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Shakespeare's Monologues is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. 43 installs a week from npm. It exposes 10 tools. Last commit 11 Oct 2026.

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

Installs per day peak 8 · avg 4 · +0% w/w

a month agotoday

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 87%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

646 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

What changed 26

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 4 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

11 Oct 9 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_monologue, get_monologue_of_the_day, get_paraphrased_monologue and 6 more

11 Oct a tool appeared send_feedback

11 Oct a tool description was rewritten send_feedback

11 Oct a tool changed version

4 Oct 7 tools changed the parameters they ask for14 times that day get_monologue, get_paraphrased_monologue, get_play_summary and 4 more

and 7 more, back to 4 October 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Shakespeare's Monologues every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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.

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

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

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

{
  "servers": {
    "shakespeare-monologues": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.shakespeare-monologues.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 10

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.

send

send_feedback

Send feedback about this Shakespeare monologues server: a monologue, play or capability you needed that its tools could not provide, a problem with a result, or praise. Only for feedback about these tools, not about other tasks. Do not include personal information about the user.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.shakespeare-monologues.org/mcp	streamable-http	answering	646 ms	8 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 10 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 4 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 646 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 in the form 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 10 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 646 ms on average, which is faster than 15% 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 43 times in the last week. Week over week that is +0%. 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?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at mcp.shakespeare-monologues.org, which runs on its operator's own terms.