Soliloquies

Soliloquies Criticism

• Introduction
• Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • The Development of the Soliloquy
  • Shakespearean Self-Talk, The Gricean Maxims, and the Unconscious
  • Shakespeare's Soliloquies: The Representation of Speech
• Criticism: Individual Plays
  • Hamlet's Fifth Soliloquy, 3.2.406-17
  • Hamlet's Mad Soliloquy
  • The ‘Now Could I Drink Hot Blood’ Soliloquy and the Middle of Hamlet.
  • Soliloquy as Self-Disclosure: The Soliloquies of Richard III
  • Prince Hal's Reformation Soliloquy: A ‘Macro-Sonnet.’
  • Hamlet: Revenge and Readiness
  • ‘To be, or not to be’: Hamlet's Dilemma
  • Hamlet and the Audience: The Dynamics of a Relationship
  • Asides, Soliloquies, and Offstage Speeches in Hamlet: Implications for Staging
  • The Adolescent and the Strangest Fellow: Comic and Morally Serious Perspectives in 1 Henry IV.
  • The Splintered Glass
• Criticism: Performance Commentary
  • John Gielgud: The Glass of Fashion
  • David Warner: The Rogue and Peasant Slave
• Further Reading