Monologue vs Soliloquy, plus general Shakespeare tips

In case you were wondering...


"In origin, the words are doublets: Greek monologue and Latin soliloquy both mean 'single speech'. But they are now distinguished in performances with monologue as a speech made by one person in the company of others while a soliloquy is spoken by one person who is alone."

Got this from an online search, thought it would be useful to be able to differentiate.

Act I Scene I is the only soliloquy that Richard performs at the beginning of any given scene, and is the only soliloquy throughout the play that begins a scene.  That said, monologue is used at the beginning of at least two other scenes; Lady Anne begins Act 1 Sc 2 this way, as does Clarence in Sc 4.

Remember Shakespeare loves to play on words!  Any verb, adjective or noun that is used by either a deceiver or an idiot should be examined for their multiple possible connotations.

More tips to follow.  :)


- T. Marcus

Welcome to our online resource!

Hello everyone,


This blog is meant to be an additional resource above and beyond what we've gone over in class.

By now I'm sure you've accumulated a fair amount of your own online links and study supports.  On the right I've listed some sites and PDFs that I believe may strengthen your grasp of the texts, their contexts and certain key topics.

If there are further resources that you would like added here, please make note of them as they occur to you, and let me know!  We'll see what we can do to build this up over the next few months.

Enjoy.


- T. Marcus