Research Catalog

Title

Shakespeare and the soliloquy in early modern English drama / edited by A. D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cousins, A. D., 1950-
• Derrin, Daniel, 1980-

Description

x, 278 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "Encompassing nearly a century of drama, this is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy. Considering the antecedents of the form in Roman, late fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century drama, it analyses its diversity, its theatrical functions and its socio-political significances. Containing detailed case-studies of the plays of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Ford, Middleton and Davenant, this collection will equip students in their own close-readings of texts, providing them with an indepth knowledge of the verbal and dramaturgical aspects of the form. Informed by rich theatrical and historical understanding, the essays reveal the larger connections between Shakespeare's use of the soliloquy and its deployment by his fellow dramatists"--
• "Beginning with an account of paradigmatic precedents in Roman drama (given its prominence in early modern English education), the book then proceeds to discuss the soliloquy's roles in English plays from the later fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. After those preparatory chapters, the book moves on to study the soliloquy from Marlowe to Davenant. The chapters on playwrights trace variations in theatrical conceptualizing of the soliloquy and in its use to represent individuated characterization (or, versions of selfhood). They also trace how, as indicated by a range of soliloquies, authors revisit and rewrite one another's texts in order to suggest authorial identity (for instance, how Davenant reworks Shakespeare)"--

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Technique
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Language
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• 1500-1699
• Soliloquy
• Speech in literature
• English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
• English drama > 17th century > History and criticism
• English language > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Style
• Drama > Technique
• English drama
• English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
• English language > Early modern > Style
• Language and languages
• Technique

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / A.D. Cousins and Daniel Derrin -- 1. Roman soliloquy / Joseph A. Smith -- 2. Tudor transformations / Raphael Falco -- 3. Doubtful battle: Marlowe's soliloquies / L.E. Semler -- 4. Shakespeare and the female voice in soliloquy / Catherine Bates -- 5. Contemplative idiots in soliloquy: rhetorical parody, laughable deformity and the audience / Daniel Derrin -- 6. Giving voice to history in Shakespeare / David Bevington -- 7. Hamlet and Of truth: humanism and the disingenuous soliloquy / A.D. Cousins -- 8. Choosing between shame and guilt: Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and King Lear / Patrick Gray -- 9. 'Too hot, too hot': the rhetorical poetics of soliloquies in Shakespeare's late plays / Kate Aughterson -- 10. Ben Jonson's Roman soliloquies / James Loxley -- 11. Ben Jonson's comic selves / Brian Woolland -- 12. 'In such a whisp'ring and withdrawing hour': speaking Solus in Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy and the Lady's Tragedy / Andrew Hiscock -- 13. John Ford's soliloquies: solitude interrupted / Huw Griffiths -- 14. Davenant's Macbeth: soliloquy, counter-revolution, and restoration / A.D. Cousins and Dani Napton -- 15. What were soliloquies in plays by Shakespeare and other late Renaissance dramatists? an empirical approach / James Hirsh.

Call Number

JFE 19-742

ISBN

• 9781107172548
• 1107172543

LCCN

2017061446

OCLC

1005108233

Title

Shakespeare and the soliloquy in early modern English drama / edited by A. D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1699

Added Author

Cousins, A. D., 1950- editor.

Derrin, Daniel, 1980- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-742