Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Fiction
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Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies is a work by George Santayana. The author was a philosopher, essayist, and poet, here presenting his monologues that are to be addressed to oneself, also known as soliloquies.
Author : George Santayana
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Page : 284 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Drama
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Author : A. D. Cousins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316782034
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.
Author : Eleanor Shipley Duckett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 022622919X
From the author of The Gateway to the Middle Ages, “a fascinating portrait of an enlightened monarch against a background of darkness and ignorance” (Kirkus Reviews). Filled with drama and action, here is the story of the ninth-century life and times of Alfred—warrior, conqueror, lawmaker, scholar, and the only king whom England has ever called “The Great.” Based on up-to-date information on ninth-century history, geography, philosophy, literature, and social life, it vividly presents exciting views of Alfred in every stage of his long career and leaves the reader with a sharply etched picture of the world of the Middle Ages.
Author : Brian Stock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139492012
Augustine's philosophy of life involves mediation, reviewing one's past and exercises for self-improvement. Centuries after Plato and before Freud he invented a 'spiritual exercise' in which every man and woman is able, through memory, to reconstruct and reinterpret life's aims. In this 2010 book, Brian Stock examines Augustine's unique way of blending literary and philosophical themes. He proposes a new interpretation of Augustine's early writings, establishing how the philosophical soliloquy (soliloquium) has emerged as a mode of inquiry and how it relates to problems of self-existence and self-history. The book also provides clear analysis of inner dialogue and discourse and how, as inner dialogue complements and finally replaces outer dialogue, a style of thinking emerges, arising from ancient sources and a religious attitude indebted to Judeo-Christian tradition.
Author : Peter Iver Kaufman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271069589
For years scholars and others have been trying to out Shakespeare as an ardent Calvinist, a crypto-Catholic, a Puritan-baiter, a secularist, or a devotee of some hybrid faith. In Religion Around Shakespeare, Peter Kaufman sets aside such speculation in favor of considering the historical and religious context surrounding his work. Employing extensive archival research, he aims to assist literary historians who probe the religious discourses, characters, and events that seem to have found places in Shakespeare’s plays and to aid general readers or playgoers developing an interest in the plays’ and playwright’s religious contexts: Catholic, conformist, and reformist. Kaufman argues that sermons preached around Shakespeare and conflicts that left their marks on literature, law, municipal chronicles, and vestry minutes enlivened the world in which (and with which) he worked and can enrich our understanding of the playwright and his plays.
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Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Times (London, England)
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Indexes
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Author : James E. Hirsh
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838639719
Provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of the conventions governing soliloquies in Western drama from ancient times to the twentieth century. Over the course of theatrical history, there have been several kinds of soliloquies. Shakespeare's soliloquies are not only the most interesting and the most famous, but also the most misunderstood, and several chapters examine them in detail. The present study is based on a painstaking analysis of the actual practices of dramatists from each age of theatrical history. This investigation has uncovered evidence that refutes long-standing commonplaces about soliloquies in general, about Shakespeare's soliloquies in particular, and especially about the to be, or not to be episode. 'Shakespeare and the history of Soliloquies' casts new lights on historical changes in the artistic representation of human beings and, because representations cannot be entirely disentangled from perception, on historical changes in the ways human beings have perceived theselves.
Author : Erwin W. Roessler
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Studies the soliloquy in German drama from medieval church plays, through the era of Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller, the romantic drama.
