Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies.

Intro -- Contents -- acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Representation of Thought and the Representation of Speech -- 3 From Antiquity to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century -- 4 The Late Sixteenth Century and Early Seventeenth Century -- 5 Shakespeare's Soliloquies: The Representation of Speech -- 6 Shakespeare's Soliloquies: Audience Address and Self-Address -- 7 ''To be, or not to be'' -- 8 From the Late Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth Century -- 9 Shakespeare's Soliloquies Transformed -- 10 ''The Celebrated Soliloquy'' -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

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