Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama

This is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy.

List of contents

Introduction A.D. Cousins and Daniel Derrin; 1. Roman soliloquy Joseph A. Smith; 2. Tudor transformations Raphael Falco; 3. Doubtful battle: Marlowe's soliloquies Liam Semler; 4. Shakespeare and the female voice in soliloquy Catherine Bates; 5. Contemplative idiots in soliloquy: rhetorical parody, laughable deformity and the audience Daniel Derrin; 6. Giving voice to history in Shakespeare David Bevington; 7. Hamlet and of truth: humanism and the disingenuous soliloquy A. D. Cousins; 8. Choosing between shame and guilt: Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and King Lear Patrick Gray; 9. 'Too hot, too hot': the rhetorical poetics of soliloquies in Shakespeare's late plays Kate Aughterson; 10. Ben Jonson's Roman soliloquies James Loxley; 11. Ben Jonson's comic selves Brian Woolland; 12. 'In such a whisp'ring and withdrawing hour': speaking solus in Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy and the Lady's Tragedy Andrew Hiscock; 13. John Ford's soliloquies: solitude interrupted Huw Griffiths; 14. Davenant's Macbeth: soliloquy, counter-revolution, and restoration Dani Napton and A. D. Cousins; 15. What were soliloquies in plays by Shakespeare and other late Renaissance dramatists? An empirical approach James Hirsh; Select Bibliography; Index.

Summary

The only book that comprehensively studies the soliloquy's history and diversity of form, its theatrical functions, rhetoric, and socio-cultural significances in the period from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Davenant.

Product details

• Authors: A. D. (Macquarie University Cousins
• Assisted by: A. D. Cousins (Editor), Daniel Derrin (Editor), Derrin Daniel (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781316623893
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62389-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean