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Excerpt from The Soliloquies of Shakespeare: A Study in Technic In the first place, this, so far as I know, is the only collective study of all of Shakespeare's soliloquies. Again, with sur prisingly few exceptions this is the only technical examination of any of Shakespeare s soliloquies. Finally, although the soliloquy as a convention has been frequently treated of late years in some valuable magazine articles at home and some lengthy monographs abroad, this discussion really adds to our knowledge of the soliloquy. There is a new treatment, I be lieve, of the following topics: (i) definition of the soliloquy; (2) the data of Chapter II; (3) the expository soliloquy as a means of identification and disguising; (4) the soliloquy as an explanation of accompanying business, - such as sleep, sui cide and death, - as an accompaniment of an entrance and of an exit, and as the unconscious entrance (5) the classifica tion and analysis of Shakespeare's comic soliloquies, showing their relation to conventional types; and (6) the collective study of Shakespeare's tragic soliloquies as revelations of thought and feeling, and, in particular, these aspects of the convention, - the apology for the introspective soliloquy, text ual indications of introspection, the setting of the introspective soliloquy, and the trance also, the evolution of the moraliz ing in Shakespeare's soliloquies, and the classification of the passions depicted by Shakespeare's soliloquizers. Notwith standing the analytical method of this investigation, I trust that I have not entirely failed to rise to the height of this great argument. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.