Shakespeare and the History of SoliloquiesFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003 - 470 pages Provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of the conventions governing soliloquies in Western drama from ancient times to the twentieth century. Over the course of theatrical history, there have been several kinds of soliloquies. Shakespeare's soliloquies are not only the most interesting and the most famous, but also the most misunderstood, and several chapters examine them in detail. The present study is based on a painstaking analysis of the actual practices of dramatists from each age of theatrical history. This investigation has uncovered evidence that refutes long-standing commonplaces about soliloquies in general, about Shakespeare's soliloquies in particular, and especially about the to be, or not to be episode. 'Shakespeare and the history of Soliloquies' casts new lights on historical changes in the artistic representation of human beings and, because representations cannot be entirely disentangled from perception, on historical changes in the ways human beings have perceived theselves. |
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... sense . An analytical catalogue of alternative hypotheses demonstrates this . In Shakespeare's theater the speech would not have made sense as a genuine soliloquy of any sort for the following reasons . ( 1 ) It would not make sense ...
... sense . An analytical catalogue of alternative hypotheses demonstrates this . In Shakespeare's theater the speech would not have made sense as a genuine soliloquy of any sort for the following reasons . ( 1 ) It would not make sense ...
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... sense would apply to this particular kind of genuine soliloquy . There is an additional rea- son why this alternative would not make sense . ( 5 ) It would not make sense that in a lengthy guarded soliloquy Hamlet would fail to express ...
... sense would apply to this particular kind of genuine soliloquy . There is an additional rea- son why this alternative would not make sense . ( 5 ) It would not make sense that in a lengthy guarded soliloquy Hamlet would fail to express ...
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... sense but in the Machiavellian sense . A prince who can stoop to forge a letter in order to bring about the deaths of two clueless acquaintances without " shriving time allow'd " could stoop to feign a soliloquy . Anna Kay France has ...
... sense but in the Machiavellian sense . A prince who can stoop to forge a letter in order to bring about the deaths of two clueless acquaintances without " shriving time allow'd " could stoop to feign a soliloquy . Anna Kay France has ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Representation of Speech | 35 |
From Antiquity to the Middle of the Sixteenth | 62 |
Copyright | |
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