Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama
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Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama

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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 theatrical functions and its socio-political significances. Containing detailed case-studies of the plays of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Ford, Middleton and Davenant, this collection will equip students in their own close-readings of texts, providing them with an indepth knowledge of the verbal and dramaturgical aspects of the form. Informed by rich theatrical and historical understanding, the essays reveal the larger connections between Shakespeare's use of the soliloquy and its deployment by his fellow dramatists.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781316782033
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Critica letteraria nel teatro

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 Roman Soliloquy
  10. Chapter 2 Tudor Transformations
  11. Chapter 3 Doubtful Battle: Marlowe’s Soliloquies
  12. Chapter 4 Shakespeare and the Female Voice in Soliloquy
  13. Chapter 5 Contemplative Idiots in Soliloquy: Rhetorical Parody, Laughable Deformity and the Audience
  14. Chapter 6 Giving Voice to History in Shakespeare
  15. Chapter 7 Hamlet and Of Truth: Humanism and the Disingenuous Soliloquy
  16. Chapter 8 Choosing between Shame and Guilt: Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, and King Lear
  17. Chapter 9 ‘Too hot, too hot’: The Rhetorical Poetics of Soliloquies in Shakespeare’s Late Plays
  18. Chapter 10 Ben Jonson’s Roman Soliloquies
  19. Chapter 11 Ben Jonson’s Comic Selves
  20. Chapter 12 ‘In such a whisp’ring and withdrawing hour’: Speaking Solus in Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy and The Lady’s Tragedy
  21. Chapter 13 John Ford’s Soliloquies: Solitude Interrupted
  22. Chapter 14 Davenant’s Macbeth: Soliloquy, Counter-Revolution and Restoration
  23. Chapter 15 What Were Soliloquies in Plays by Shakespeare and Other Late Renaissance Dramatists? An Empirical Approach
  24. Notes
  25. Select Bibliography
  26. Index