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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790271803321

Autore

Hirsh James E. <1946->

Titolo

Shakespeare and the history of soliloquies [[electronic resource] /] / James Hirsh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, N.J., : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8386-4437-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (470 p.)

Disciplina

809.2/45

Soggetti

Soliloquy

Speech in literature

English drama - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-465) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The representation of thought and the representation of speech -- From antiquity to the middle of the sixteenth century -- The late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century -- Shakespeare's soliloquies : the representation of speech -- Shakespeare's soliloquies : audience address and self-address -- "To be, or not to be" -- From the late seventeenth century to the twentieth century -- Shakespeare's soliloquies transformed -- "The celebrated soliloquy".