Reading Shakespeares Soliloquies
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Author | : Neil Corcoran |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2018-01-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474253520 |
'Now I am alone,' says Hamlet before speaking a soliloquy. But what is a Shakespearean soliloquy? How has it been understood in literary and theatrical history? How does it work in screen versions of Shakespeare? What influence has it had? Neil Corcoran offers a thorough exploration and explanation of the origin, nature, development and reception of Shakespeare's soliloquies. Divided into four parts, the book supplies the historical, dramatic and theoretical contexts necessary to understanding, offers extensive and insightful close readings of particular soliloquies and includes interviews with eight renowned Shakespearean actors providing details of the practical performance of the soliloquy. A comprehensive study of a key aspect of Shakespeare's dramatic art, this book is ideal for students and theatre-goers keen to understand the complexities and rewards of Shakespeare's unique use of the soliloquy.
Author | : Wolfgang Clemen |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : 9780415352772 |
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.
Author | : Ingeborg Boltz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135032904 |
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.
Author | : Rhona Silverbush |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 1089 |
Release | : 2002-09-18 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0571211224 |
A detailed guide to approaching Shakespearean text, Speak the speech! contains everything an actor needs to select and prepare a Shakespeare monologue for classwork, auditions, or performance. Included herein are over 150 monologues. Each one is placed in context with a brief introduction, is carefully punctuated in the manner that best illustrates its meaning, and is painstakingly and thoroughly annotated. Each is also accompanied by commentary that will spark the actor's imagination by exploring how the interrelationship of meter and the choice of words and sounds yields clues to character and performance. And throughout the book sidebars relate historical, topical, technical, and other useful and entertaining information relevant to the text. In addition, the authors include an overview of poetic and rhetorical elements, brief synopses of all the plays, and a comprehensive index along with other guidelines that will help readers locate the perfect monologue for their needs.
Author | : Morris LeRoy Arnold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Presents a collective study of all of Shakespeare's soliloquies by defining the soliloquy, classifying the soliloquies and presenting them as revelations of thought and feeling.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2000-02-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1476841837 |
Your one-stop classical workshop! At last, over 175 of Shakespeare's finest and most performable monologues taken from all thirty-seven plays are here in two easy-to-use volumes (Men and Women). Selections travel the entire spectrum of the great dramatist's vision, from comedies, wit and romances, to tragedies, pathos and histories.
Author | : Emma Smith |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1524748552 |
An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing—not resolving—the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn’t tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant. In This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith—an intellectually, theatrically, and ethically exciting writer—takes us into a world of politicking and copycatting, as we watch Shakespeare emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd (the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day), flirting with and skirting around the cutthroat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval, and technological change. Smith writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity, and sex. Instead of offering the answers, the Shakespeare she reveals poses awkward questions, always inviting the reader to ponder ambiguities.
Author | : Marcus Nordlund |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474418988 |
The Shakespearean Inside is a study of all soliloquies and solo asides (dubbed "e;insides"e; for short) in Shakespeare's complete plays. The first step in the research process was the creation of the Shakespearean Inside Database (SID) where these speeches were annotated according to variables of genuine literary interest (such as act, dramatic subgenre, probable time of composition, dramatic speech acts, selected figures of speech, and character attributes such as gender and class). Such comprehensive and detailed data makes it possible to generalize dependably about Shakespeare's authorial habits, and, by extension, to identify situations where the author departs in interesting ways from his habitual practices. The monograph uses these broad patterns and significant exceptions as a backdrop for fresh interpretations of various Shakespeare plays (from early works such as The Taming of the Shrew and The Two Gentlemen of Verona to mature tragedies like Hamlet and late plays like The Tempest and The Two Noble Kinsmen).
Author | : Morris LeRoy Arnold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Monologue |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0486449408 |
This superlative collection offers timeless speeches from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, and more.