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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hirsh, James E., 1946- Shakespeare and the history of soliloquies. Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2003 (OCoLC)606953266 |
Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James E Hirsh |
ISBN: | 0838639712 9780838639719 |
OCLC Number: | 50722253 |
Description: | 470 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The representation of thought and the representation of speech -- From antiquity to the middle of the sixteenth century -- The late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century -- Shakespeare's soliloquies : the representation of speech -- Shakespeare's soliloquies : audience address and self-address -- "To be, or not to be" -- From the late seventeenth century to the twentieth century -- Shakespeare's soliloquies transformed -- "The celebrated soliloquy." |
Responsibility: | James Hirsh. |
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Abstract:
Shakespeare's soliloquies are not only the most interesting and the most famous, but also the most misunderstood. This text examines them in detail. It also casts new lights on historical changes in the artistic representation of human beings and on historical changes in the ways human beings have perceived themselves.
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