This is a speech uttered when a character is alone on the stage or is addressing the audience rather than the other players. Its function is usually to reveal inner thoughts and the apron-fronted stage of an Elizabethan theatre lent itself to this purpose.
For my analysis of the famous soliloquies in Hamlet visit: http://www.classicsenglishliterature.com
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Thursday, 4 October 2012
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