Theatre

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"Presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers."

A free online archive of primary source dialect and accent recordings for the performing arts, by Paul Meier, author, dialect coach and university professor. Recordings include both English language dialects and English spoken in the accents of other languages.

The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection contains 118 hours of recordings documenting North American English dialects. It includes speech samples, linguistic interviews, oral histories, conversations, and excerpts from public speeches. ... Documentation covers social aspects of English language usage in different regions of the United States. It reveals distinctions in speech related to gender, race, social class, education, age, literacy, ethnic background, and occupations.)

Select "Men" or "Women," then select from the complete list of Shakespeare's plays. Links to the texts of each of the monologues.