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International Transactions in Humanities and Social Sciencesjuly-dec 2014 Vol:6 Issue:2

Delineation of Shakespeare's Soliloquies in His Tragedies

Abstract

It is a section of dialogue where one character is speaking aloud to himself. We may be wondering, why a character needs and feels to speak to himself?In drama, Soliloquy denotes the convention by which a character alone on the stage utters his or her thought aloud. Usually serious speech that a character in a play makes to an audience and that reveals the character’s thought. On the stage these speeches are extremely important where novels have clear words to help out the audience infer a character’s thoughts, motivations and feelings, drama has only dialogue to do so. Thus Soliloquies are sometimes the only way to explain to the audience a character’s motivations, which make clear why character is acting a certain way. Sometimes, it helps to explain past, present, or future events of the play, where otherwise the audience would be left confused. Soliloquies were the most common during the Elizabethan and Victorian Eras. During these time periods, with the help of Shakespeare and other contemporaries, drama became extremely popular with the masses. This helped soliloquies grow in prominence and use. In today’s society, soliloquies are still common on stage. In many musicals, they come in the form of song sung by a character. Through this great technique, which has been used as a device, playwrights used to convey the progress of action of the play by means of expressing a character’s inner thoughts.

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Shipra Shah   ( Pages 59-62 )
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