FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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themselves
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the audience
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another character
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an imaginary person
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Detailed explanation-1: -A soliloquy is when a character in a dramatic work speaks directly to the audience, expressing their inner thoughts.
Detailed explanation-2: -Who is the audience of a soliloquy? Only the theater audience (or reader) and the character who is speaking. What kinds of things does a character talk about in a soliloquy? The character reveals inner thoughts, and puzzles out personal problems.
Detailed explanation-3: -A soliloquy is when a character speaks their own thoughts aloud, essentially a speech given to oneself.
Detailed explanation-4: -Soliloquy is the word we traditionally use to refer to a monologue that is delivered when the character is alone. In Shakespeare’s plays, for example, there are many speeches that begin with a character saying something like “Now I am alone.” And you know you are about to experience a soliloquy.
Detailed explanation-5: -Soliloquy (from the Latin solus “alone” and loqui “to speak”) at its most basic level refers to the act of talking to oneself, and more specifically denotes the solo utterance of an actor in a drama.