Shakespeare and the soliloquy in early modern English drama /
"Encompassing nearly a century of drama, this is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy. Considering the antecedents of the form in Roman, late fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century drama, it analyses its diversity, its theat...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Roman Soliloquy; Chapter 2 Tudor Transformations; Chapter 3 Doubtful Battle: Marlowe's Soliloquies; Chapter 4 Shakespeare and the Female Voice in Soliloquy; Chapter 5 Contemplative Idiots in Soliloquy: Rhetorical Parody, Laughable Deformity and the Audience; Chapter 6 Giving Voice to History in Shakespeare; Chapter 7 Hamlet and Of Truth: Humanism and the Disingenuous Soliloquy; Chapter 8 Choosing between Shame and Guilt: Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, and King Lear
- Chapter 9 'Too hot, too hot': The Rhetorical Poetics of Soliloquies in Shakespeare's Late PlaysChapter 10 Ben Jonson's Roman Soliloquies; Chapter 11 Ben Jonson's Comic Selves; Chapter 12 'In such a whisp'ring and withdrawing hour': Speaking Solus in Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy and The Lady's Tragedy; Chapter 13 John Ford's Soliloquies: Solitude Interrupted; Chapter 14 Davenant's Macbeth: Soliloquy, Counter-Revolution and Restoration; Chapter 15 What Were Soliloquies in Plays by Shakespeare and Other Late Renaissance Dramatists? An Empirical Approach; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
