Exploring Shakespearean Soliloquies and Female Characters
Delve into the world of Shakespearean soliloquies, a device used in drama to reveal characters' innermost thoughts and feelings to the audience. Discover the uniqueness of Shakespeare's works, including his famous plays like Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet. Explore the seven types of female characters often portrayed in Shakespeare's plays and the influence of soliloquies on his storytelling. Uncover the timeless themes of life, love, death, revenge, and more that Shakespeare masterfully weaves into his works.
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VIJAYA BHAARATHY M.R Assistant Professor of English Swami Vivekanandha arts and science college Vallam Thanjavur .
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SHAKESPEAREAN SOLILOQUIES A soliloquy from Latin solo to one self is a device often used in drama when a character speaks to themselves, relating thoughts and feelings thereby also sharing them with the audience giving the illusion of un spoken reflections The act of talking while (or) as if alone ( example) Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow is a famous Macbeth soliloquy
Long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts. Speech given by a character alone by themselves. When a character talks to himself so the audience can hear A character always tells the truth in a soliloquy Shakespeare s soliloquies contain some of his most original and powerful writing. soliloquies were frequently used in dramas but went out of fashion when drama shifted towards realism in the late 18thcentury.
William shakespeare often uses soliloquies in his plays, and Hamlet is no exception. Throughout the play of Hamlet, there are a total seven soliloquies. Augustine was an influential christian cleric who lived in the late 4thand early 5th centuries AD. So if he coined the term as the above reference notes, then it is ancient, indeed. As for the first play to use a soliloquy , after doing several searches, I can find only references to shakespeares plays.
Seven Types of Female Characters in Shakespeare Plays The bawdy woman The tragic innocent woman The scheming femme fatal The witty but un marriable woman The married off woman Women who dress as men Falsely accused of adultery
UNIQUENESS OF SHAKESPEARES WORKS His many works are about life, love, death, revenge, grief, jealousy, murder, magic and mystery. He wrote the blockbuster plays of his day-some of his most famous are Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. He was an English poet, playwright and actor of the renaissance era. He was an important member of the king s Men company of theatrical players from roughly 1594 onward. His poems and plays are powerful and beautifully written.
Shakespeares Most Famous Comides The Taming of the shrew A Midsummer Night s Dream Twelfth Night The Tempest
SOME SHAKESPEAREAN FOOLS CHARACTERS A Fool in Timon of Athens Autolycus in the winter s tale Citizen in Julius Caesar Cloten in Cymbeline Clown in Othello Clown in Titus Andronicus Costard in love s Labours lost The gravediggers in hamlet The porter in Macbeth Thersites in as you like it - touchstone
SHAKESPEARES AUDIENCE & THEATER Shakespeare s audience for his outdoor plays was the very rich, the upper middle class, and the lower middle class. The globe is the theatre most commonly associated with the performance of Shakespeare s plays. It was erected in 1599 on the south bank of the Thames by the lord chamberlains Men, and it became their main performance space until it was destroyed by a fire on june 29th1613. The Elizabethan Genral public referred to as groundlings would pay 1 penny to stand in the Pit of the globe theater.
The gentry would pay to sit in the galleries often using cushions for comfort. Rich nobles could watch the play from a chair set on the side of the globe stage itself. Shakespeare audience eat fruit, bread, nuts, cheese, meat and shell fish were the norm for Elizabethan theater audiences. So, if you are inclined to host a movie based on one of Shakespeare's plays this weekend, now you know what to serve
The first globe based on the skeleton of the original theatre of 1576, was unique not just as the most famous example of that peculiar and short- lived form of theater design but because it was actually the first to be built specifically for an existing acting company and financed by the company itself. The original theater was built in 1599,destroyed by fire in 1613,rebulit in 1614, and then demolished in 1644. The modern globe theater is an academic approximation based on available evidence of the 1599 and 1614 buildings.
