Shakespeare's Soliloquies

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Psychology Press, 1987 - 211 pages

First published in 1987.

Often the best known and most memorable passages in Shakespeare's plays, the soliloquies, also tend to be the focal points in the drama. Twenty-seven soliloquies are examined in this work, illustrating how the spectator or reader is led to the soliloquy and how the drama is continued afterwards. The detailed structure of each soliloquy is discussed, as well as examining them within the structure of the entire play - thereby extending the interpretation of the work as a whole.

 

Contents

SOLILOQUIES FROM THE HISTORY
13
Richard awakes from his nightmare his last
19
KING JOHN
29
Falstaffs reflections on honour V i 12541
38
TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
45
TWELFTH NIGHT
51
ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL
60
CYMBELINE
72
35
100
OTHELLO
163
KING LEAR
171
CONCLUSION
179
NOTES
193
91
195
109
202
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
210

THE TEMPEST
79
SOLILOQUIES FROM
89

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