Is shakespeare-monologues live?

Yes — it answered the hub's last check (checked 1h ago). It answered 99% of checks over the last 30 days.

Is shakespeare-monologues free to use?

Yes — the hub reached it with no key and no payment.

What tools does shakespeare-monologues have?

10 tools: get_paraphrased_monologue, get_play_summary, send_feedback, get_monologue, get_scene_summary, list_all_monologues_for_a_character, search_monologues, list_plays, ….

Is shakespeare-monologues safe to connect?

The hub found no text in its card or tool descriptions aimed at the agent reading them. It measures what the server answers, not its code — grant it only the access its tools need.

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shakespeare-monologues

https://mcp.shakespeare-monologues.org

Registry code: 1180272902d5e677

api record

Shakespeare monologues for actors, from shakespeare-monologues.org. Three tools work on one monologue and need its numeric `id`, which you only get from search_monologues, list_all_monologues_for_a_character, random_monologue or get_monologue_of_the_day. So find the monologue first, then pass that number as `id` to get_monologue (catalogue entry and link), get_paraphrased_monologue (full text plus a modern-English paraphrase) or get_scene_summary (what's happening in the scene). get_play_summary takes a play title instead; list_plays shows the exact titles. AI summaries and paraphrases can be…

endpoint: https://mcp.shakespeare-monologues.org/mcp
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Is shakespeare-monologues live?: Yes — it answered the hub's last check (checked 1h ago). It answered 99% of checks over the last 30 days.
Is shakespeare-monologues free to use?: Yes — the hub reached it with no key and no payment.
What tools does shakespeare-monologues have?: 10 tools: get_paraphrased_monologue, get_play_summary, send_feedback, get_monologue, get_scene_summary, list_all_monologues_for_a_character, search_monologues, list_plays, ….
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_ what it is for

topic: games & entertainment entertainment & media
used for: search shakespeare monologues
get a monologue with paraphrase
get a play or scene summary
list monologues for a character
takes → gives: text → text, data
tools: 9 reads

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_ what it can do 10 tools

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Price is per tool, not per server. An agent whose handshake is open can hold tools that demand a key or a payment, and one figure for the whole agent sends callers into a wall.

search_monologues reads open 8h ago

Search Shakespeare monologues by free text (matches character, play, or first line) plus optional filters. Returns matches, each with a permalink `url`.

mcp-tool

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "context",
    "llm_model"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "act": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Filter to a specific act number."
    },
    "play": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Exact or partial play title."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Max results to return (default 25, max 100)."
    },
    "query": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Free text — matched against character name, play title, and first line."
    },
    "style": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Verse or Prose."
    },
    "gender": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Role gender: Men, Women, or Both. Natural words like 'male'/'female' are accepted. 'Men'/'Women' also include gender-neutral ('Both') roles."
    },
    "context": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Explain in 15-25 words, in third person, why this tool is called and how it supports the user's goal. For analytics only. You MUST describe only the abstract purpose of the tool call. NEVER include, repeat, paraphrase, or infer personal, sensitive, or identifying information from the user request or tool results, including names, emails, phone numbers, IPs, IDs, or credentials. You MUST generalize specific entities into roles such as \"a user\", \"the customer\", or \"an account\". Example: \"Retrieving a customer's recent orders to investigate a billing issue and help support determine the appropriate resolution.\""
    },
    "llm_model": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The exact model identifier you (the assistant) are running as, taken from your system prompt or environment (e.g. \"claude-opus-4-8\", \"gpt-5.2\"). Used for analytics only. If you do not know your model identifier with certainty, pass \"unknown\" — never guess."
    },
    "conversation_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Pass the exact conversation_id from the server's previous response, unchanged. The server provides it on the first call — never invent one, and do not issue parallel tool calls until you have it. Keep passing the same conversation_id for the rest of the conversation, including after later user messages or on a different task; do not reset it when the user starts a new request."
    }
  }
}

arguments 66 lines

list_plays reads open 12h ago

List Shakespeare's plays with their classification (Comedy/History/Tragedy) and monologue counts.

mcp-tool

{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"required": [
"context",
"llm_model"
],
"properties": {
"context": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Explain in 15-25 words, in third person, why this tool is called and how it supports the user's goal. For analytics only. You MUST describe only the abstract purpose of the tool call. NEVER include, repeat, paraphrase, or infer personal, sensitive, or identifying information from the user request or tool results, including names, emails, phone numbers, IPs, IDs, or credentials. You MUST generalize specific entities into roles such as \"a user\", \"the customer\", or \"an account\". Example: \"Retrieving a customer's recent orders to investigate a billing issue and help support determine the appropriate resolution.\""
},
"llm_model": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The exact model identifier you (the assistant) are running as, taken from your system prompt or environment (e.g. \"claude-opus-4-8\", \"gpt-5.2\"). Used for analytics only. If you do not know your model identifier with certainty, pass \"unknown\" — never guess."
},
"conversation_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Pass the exact conversation_id from the server's previous response, unchanged. The server provides it on the first call — never invent one, and do not issue parallel tool calls until you have it. Keep passing the same conversation_id for the rest of the conversation, including after later user messages or on a different task; do not reset it when the user starts a new request."
}
}
}

arguments 22 lines

random_monologue reads open 12h ago

Return one random monologue, with optional gender/play filters. Useful for a suggestion when the user is undecided.

mcp-tool

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "context",
    "llm_model"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "play": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Exact or partial play title."
    },
    "gender": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Role gender: Men, Women, or Both. Natural words like 'male'/'female' are accepted. 'Men'/'Women' also include gender-neutral ('Both') roles."
    },
    "context": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Explain in 15-25 words, in third person, why this tool is called and how it supports the user's goal. For analytics only. You MUST describe only the abstract purpose of the tool call. NEVER include, repeat, paraphrase, or infer personal, sensitive, or identifying information from the user request or tool results, including names, emails, phone numbers, IPs, IDs, or credentials. You MUST generalize specific entities into roles such as \"a user\", \"the customer\", or \"an account\". Example: \"Retrieving a customer's recent orders to investigate a billing issue and help support determine the appropriate resolution.\""
    },
    "llm_model": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The exact model identifier you (the assistant) are running as, taken from your system prompt or environment (e.g. \"claude-opus-4-8\", \"gpt-5.2\"). Used for analytics only. If you do not know your model identifier with certainty, pass \"unknown\" — never guess."
    },
    "conversation_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Pass the exact conversation_id from the server's previous response, unchanged. The server provides it on the first call — never invent one, and do not issue parallel tool calls until you have it. Keep passing the same conversation_id for the rest of the conversation, including after later user messages or on a different task; do not reset it when the user starts a new request."
    }
  }
}

arguments 36 lines

get_monologue_of_the_day reads open 8h ago

The current 'Monologue of the Day' — the piece most recently posted to the site's social feeds.

mcp-tool

arguments 22 lines

get_paraphrased_monologue reads unknown 8h ago

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.

mcp-tool

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "context",
    "llm_model"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "The monologue's numeric id (from search_monologues)."
    },
    "context": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Explain in 15-25 words, in third person, why this tool is called and how it supports the user's goal. For analytics only. You MUST describe only the abstract purpose of the tool call. NEVER include, repeat, paraphrase, or infer personal, sensitive, or identifying information from the user request or tool results, including names, emails, phone numbers, IPs, IDs, or credentials. You MUST generalize specific entities into roles such as \"a user\", \"the customer\", or \"an account\". Example: \"Retrieving a customer's recent orders to investigate a billing issue and help support determine the appropriate resolution.\""
    },
    "llm_model": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The exact model identifier you (the assistant) are running as, taken from your system prompt or environment (e.g. \"claude-opus-4-8\", \"gpt-5.2\"). Used for analytics only. If you do not know your model identifier with certainty, pass \"unknown\" — never guess."
    },
    "monologue_id": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Deprecated alias for `id`."
    },
    "conversation_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Pass the exact conversation_id from the server's previous response, unchanged. The server provides it on the first call — never invent one, and do not issue parallel tool calls until you have it. Keep passing the same conversation_id for the rest of the conversation, including after later user messages or on a different task; do not reset it when the user starts a new request."
    }
  }
}

arguments 38 lines

get_play_summary reads unknown 15h ago

Fetch an AI-generated summary of a play (e.g. 'Hamlet', 'The Tempest'). May be null if not generated yet.

mcp-tool

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "context",
    "llm_model"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "play": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Play title (exact or partial)."
    },
    "context": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Explain in 15-25 words, in third person, why this tool is called and how it supports the user's goal. For analytics only. You MUST describe only the abstract purpose of the tool call. NEVER include, repeat, paraphrase, or infer personal, sensitive, or identifying information from the user request or tool results, including names, emails, phone numbers, IPs, IDs, or credentials. You MUST generalize specific entities into roles such as \"a user\", \"the customer\", or \"an account\". Example: \"Retrieving a customer's recent orders to investigate a billing issue and help support determine the appropriate resolution.\""
    },
    "llm_model": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The exact model identifier you (the assistant) are running as, taken from your system prompt or environment (e.g. \"claude-opus-4-8\", \"gpt-5.2\"). Used for analytics only. If you do not know your model identifier with certainty, pass \"unknown\" — never guess."
    },
    "conversation_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Pass the exact conversation_id from the server's previous response, unchanged. The server provides it on the first call — never invent one, and do not issue parallel tool calls until you have it. Keep passing the same conversation_id for the rest of the conversation, including after later user messages or on a different task; do not reset it when the user starts a new request."
    }
  }
}

arguments 29 lines

send_feedback unknown never probed

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.

mcp-tool

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "feedback_type",
    "summary",
    "llm_model"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "details": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional longer context: what you tried, exact parameter values, the error text you saw, and any workaround you used. Omit when the summary says it all."
    },
    "summary": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "One self-contained sentence. For 'missing_capability': the capability you needed, e.g. 'No tool to delete multiple cohorts in one call.' For 'issue': the tool and the problem, e.g. 'query-trends rejects relative date ranges with an unclear error.'"
    },
    "llm_model": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The exact model identifier you (the assistant) are running as, taken from your system prompt or environment (e.g. \"claude-opus-4-8\", \"gpt-5.2\"). Used for analytics only. If you do not know your model identifier with certainty, pass \"unknown\" — never guess."
    },
    "sentiment": {
      "enum": [
        "positive",
        "neutral",
        "negative",
        "mixed"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional: how the experience felt overall."
    },
    "tool_name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional: the existing tool this feedback is about (for 'issue' or 'praise'). Leave empty for 'missing_capability' - the point is that no tool fits."
    },
    "feedback_type": {
      "enum": [
        "missing_capability",
        "issue",
        "praise",
        "other"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "What kind of feedback this is. Use 'missing_capability' when the tool you needed does not exist in the tool list - nothing failed, the capability is absent (this is the most valuable report; send it even if you found a workaround). Use 'issue' when an existing tool behaved badly: it failed, returned a confusing error, or its description or schema misled you. Use 'praise' when something worked notably well. Use 'other' for anything else."
    },
    "task_completed": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Optional: whether you still completed the user's task despite the problem."
    },
    "conversation_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Pass the exact conversation_id from the server's previous response, unchanged. The server provides it on the first call — never invent one, and do not issue parallel tool calls until you have it. Keep passing the same conversation_id for the rest of the conversation, including after later user messages or on a different task; do not reset it when the user starts a new request."
    },
    "friction_points": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional: the specific moments that slowed you down, as short bullet-like sentences, quoting exact tool names, parameters, or error text."
    },
    "suggested_improvement": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional: the concrete change that would have helped, e.g. the tool to add, the description to reword, or the error message to improve."
    }
  }
}

arguments 62 lines

get_monologue reads unknown 12h ago

Fetch one monologue's catalogue entry by its numeric id. Follow the returned `url` for the full text.

mcp-tool

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "context",
    "llm_model"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "The monologue's numeric id (from search_monologues)."
    },
    "context": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Explain in 15-25 words, in third person, why this tool is called and how it supports the user's goal. For analytics only. You MUST describe only the abstract purpose of the tool call. NEVER include, repeat, paraphrase, or infer personal, sensitive, or identifying information from the user request or tool results, including names, emails, phone numbers, IPs, IDs, or credentials. You MUST generalize specific entities into roles such as \"a user\", \"the customer\", or \"an account\". Example: \"Retrieving a customer's recent orders to investigate a billing issue and help support determine the appropriate resolution.\""
    },
    "llm_model": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The exact model identifier you (the assistant) are running as, taken from your system prompt or environment (e.g. \"claude-opus-4-8\", \"gpt-5.2\"). Used for analytics only. If you do not know your model identifier with certainty, pass \"unknown\" — never guess."
    },
    "monologue_id": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Deprecated alias for `id`."
    },
    "conversation_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Pass the exact conversation_id from the server's previous response, unchanged. The server provides it on the first call — never invent one, and do not issue parallel tool calls until you have it. Keep passing the same conversation_id for the rest of the conversation, including after later user messages or on a different task; do not reset it when the user starts a new request."
    }
  }
}

arguments 38 lines

get_scene_summary reads unknown 15h ago

Fetch an AI-generated summary of the scene a monologue appears in (context for the speech). May be null if not generated yet.

mcp-tool

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "context",
    "llm_model"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "The monologue's numeric id (from search_monologues)."
    },
    "context": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Explain in 15-25 words, in third person, why this tool is called and how it supports the user's goal. For analytics only. You MUST describe only the abstract purpose of the tool call. NEVER include, repeat, paraphrase, or infer personal, sensitive, or identifying information from the user request or tool results, including names, emails, phone numbers, IPs, IDs, or credentials. You MUST generalize specific entities into roles such as \"a user\", \"the customer\", or \"an account\". Example: \"Retrieving a customer's recent orders to investigate a billing issue and help support determine the appropriate resolution.\""
    },
    "llm_model": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The exact model identifier you (the assistant) are running as, taken from your system prompt or environment (e.g. \"claude-opus-4-8\", \"gpt-5.2\"). Used for analytics only. If you do not know your model identifier with certainty, pass \"unknown\" — never guess."
    },
    "monologue_id": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Deprecated alias for `id`."
    },
    "conversation_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Pass the exact conversation_id from the server's previous response, unchanged. The server provides it on the first call — never invent one, and do not issue parallel tool calls until you have it. Keep passing the same conversation_id for the rest of the conversation, including after later user messages or on a different task; do not reset it when the user starts a new request."
    }
  }
}

arguments 38 lines

list_all_monologues_for_a_character reads unknown 15h ago

List every monologue spoken by a given character (e.g. 'Hamlet', 'Rosalind'). Matches the character name exactly first, then as a substring.

mcp-tool

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "required": [
    "context",
    "llm_model"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Max results (default 50, max 200)."
    },
    "context": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Explain in 15-25 words, in third person, why this tool is called and how it supports the user's goal. For analytics only. You MUST describe only the abstract purpose of the tool call. NEVER include, repeat, paraphrase, or infer personal, sensitive, or identifying information from the user request or tool results, including names, emails, phone numbers, IPs, IDs, or credentials. You MUST generalize specific entities into roles such as \"a user\", \"the customer\", or \"an account\". Example: \"Retrieving a customer's recent orders to investigate a billing issue and help support determine the appropriate resolution.\""
    },
    "character": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Character name."
    },
    "llm_model": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The exact model identifier you (the assistant) are running as, taken from your system prompt or environment (e.g. \"claude-opus-4-8\", \"gpt-5.2\"). Used for analytics only. If you do not know your model identifier with certainty, pass \"unknown\" — never guess."
    },
    "conversation_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Pass the exact conversation_id from the server's previous response, unchanged. The server provides it on the first call — never invent one, and do not issue parallel tool calls until you have it. Keep passing the same conversation_id for the rest of the conversation, including after later user messages or on a different task; do not reset it when the user starts a new request."
    }
  }
}

arguments 37 lines

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This deployment has no calling key, so nothing can be run from here. The console signs through the hub with the site's own account; without one it would have to send an unsigned call, which only works against a hub with signatures switched off.

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Nobody has claimed this listing. Claimed, its README badge says «verified owner» with figures this hub measured, routed paid calls to it pay your account (today there is nobody to pay), and its history counts towards your passport.

Sign any request with an ed25519 key — that binds it: GET /api/v1/me, then POST /api/v1/passport.
Prove it is yours. Easiest: put brick-blue-key=<your key> in your MCP server's instructions — or a DNS TXT record / a file on the domain.
Ask the hub to check: POST /api/v1/passport/claim-endpoint with this listing's id 1180272902d5e677.

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The picture says what this hub measured — the access class, how many tools it called and whether they answered — and refreshes hourly. Unclaimed, it says so; claim the listing and the same badge says «verified owner» with its uptime and paid calls.

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spec deviations

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ok: 0
failed: 0
success rate: —
median latency: —

work

attempts: 0
accepted: 0
rejected: 0
acceptance rate: —
settled without a human: 0
earned: 0 USDC

disputes

raised against: 0
upheld: 0
rate: —

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paid reviews: 0
positive: 0
negative: 0
score: —

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