... O'Neill, Eugene Quartos Shakespeare Shaw, Bernard soliloquy stage-directions Few modern readers of Shakespeare's plays, at whose wallets publishers aim a dizzyingly large number of competing editions, will want to look behind the volume they have bought to an original text or to a facsimile...

.... Characters in fiction may not consciously trace a path of persuasion, but great writers are adroit at doing so. Shakespeare, for example, in the soliloquies by Brutus in Julius Caesar and Angelo in Measure for Measure; Milton in the speeches of Satan in Books I and V...

...Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy has been chronically misread as indistinct interior agony when in fact the text looks like philosophical calculus and is coherent as such. Shakespeare draws on Seneca’s Letter 70 and on two philosophically sceptical passages of Montaigne’s Essays...

... theater, and theater artists from Jacobs-Jenkins to George C. Wolfe, Lin-Manuel Miranda to Claudia Rankine, turn back to the participatory conventions of melodrama for their own political theater work. melodrama tragic mulatto antislavery theater soliloquy photography tableaux vivants Dion...

... Ciceronian and neo-Platonic philosophy, Roman comedy and Vergilian poetry, and early Christian theology. They are also, arguably, Augustine's most charming works, exhibiting his whimsical levity and ironic wryness. This book is the fourth work in this tetralogy. Augustine coined the term “soliloquy...

... as his major soliloquy proceeds (10.720–862). Anne Ferry observes that Milton's ironic and duplicitous use of ‘the verb “seem” is almost always a warning against oversimplification’. ⁴⁷ The verb's function as a moralizing device is at least as old as Spenser's heroic poetry. Book Five's...

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... narrative, through soliloquy, and how the attribution of verse dialogue can mark out a character as a dominant, controlling voice in the narrative. Eyrbyggja saga skaldic verse Bjarnar saga hítdoelakappa Gunnlaugs saga Hallfreðar saga Kormáks saga Sigvatr Þórðarson skáldasögur poets' sagas Snorri...

... literature prosimetrum dialogue verses diagetical verses extra-diagetical verses soliloquy biography Grettis saga has been memorably described as ‘the last of the great Icelandic sagas’. ¹ However, some scholars have regarded the saga not as the consummation of a tradition...

..., or explicit scripting has to catch up with furtive choices known only to the actor with his part. This is exemplified in the dramaturgy of Gloucester’s blinding. Edgar/Tom speaks a soliloquy in-between this scene and the previous: the closing repeated cue makes it possible that Edgar/Tom is given a phantom...

...This chapter explores another type of art that the third Earl of Shaftesbury believed represents morally significant conduct: writing. The chapte looks at his Soliloquy: or, Advice to an Author, which provides instruction to authors. Shaftesbury discusses poems and plays...

...This chapter opens with Harry's “I know you all” soliloquy in Henry V. It shows that the drama of his transactions with himself, with Falstaff, with his father, and with the rest of the world unfolds coherently from the second scene in 1 Henry IV through...

... by pointing out that the context of Romans 8 is itself the messianic. It also suggests that the Spirit prays on our behalf in a divine soliloquy in which God addresses Godself. Deconstruction deconstructionist Grace Justice Messianiac messianism Piety pietism Aristotle Call the Caputo John D Oui oui...

...This chapter considers how the mind is represented on the Elizabethan stage. It details how the soliloquy developed in the late Elizabethan period and how it reached its apogee in Hamlet. Here, the chapter explores how speech is transitional between the medieval convention...

..., instance of the use of a special narrative method to represent the events of psychological reality. In both “Prufrock “ and Molly’s soliloquy, the verbal “stream “ portrays an inner conflict, and in both cases, the conflict is crucial-because its issue is fundamental to the character’s destiny. Finally...

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...The idea of the soliloquy is central to Shakespeare's dramatic poetry, especially as a dramatist of personhood. Indeed, it is the argument of Catherine Belsey in The Subject of Tragedy (1985) that the modern liberal ideology of individualism is epitomized by Hamlet, and that this individualism...

...This chapter introduces Hugh’s spiritual masterpiece, De arrha anime or Soliloquy. It concerns the soul’s down payment or bridal gift (arrha), the love of the bridegroom (Song of Songs), and personal testimony. Song of Songs...

... of poetic composition and of reading, testing it against the poem’s narrative joints. From scenes of soliloquy to dream scenes, solitude, it shows, is a characteristic quality of the poem’s settings, figures, form and its poet’s persona, that last of which, the chapter argues, contributed...

.... This chapter argues that soliloquy as problem and opportunity was central to the aims of Latin love elegy, especially to Propertius’ Elegies. Drawing comparisons with the Lydia, Dirae, Tibullus’ elegies, Virgil’s tenth Eclogue, and Propertius...