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"Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is quoted more often than any other passage in Shakespeare. It is arguably the most famous speech in the Western world - though few of us can remember much about it. This book carefully unpacks the individual words, phrases and sentences of Hamlet's soliloquy in order to reveal how and why it has achieved its remarkable hold on our culture. Hamlet's speech asks us to ask some of the most serious questions there are regarding knowledge and existence. In it, Shakespeare also expands the limits of the English language. Douglas Bruster therefore reads Hamlet's famous speech in "slow motion" to highlight its material, philosophical and cultural meaning and its resonance for generations of actors, playgoers and readers."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Soliloquy. --- Drama --- Monologue --- Shakespeare, William, --- Criticism, Textual.

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Si le drame subsiste au XXe siècle, il s'en trouve profondément transformé car l'inflation du monologue rend peut-être toute parole solitaire et désolée, mais il manifeste surtout sa propension à rendre compte de la pluralité des voix du monde. Le monologue se présente de plus en plus comme un lieu de résistance, se fait le laboratoire d'écritures et de pratiques scéniques sans cesse renouvelées. Ce mouvement exploratoire travaille ce qui constitue le drame dans son rapport au monologue, à la fois comme un constituant dramatique - "contre" le drame : dans une immédiate proximité - mais aussi comme une force, et une forme, d'opposition offensive, faisant s'ébranler cette assise en réinvestissant ce qui fait l'action : l'acteur et sa parole - "contre" le drame : dans une opposition frontale. Si certains critères de dramaticité ne sont plus pertinents (vraisemblance, cohérence de l'action), certains constituants s'en trouvent réactivés (l'adresse, le rapport à la parole, le corps de l'acteur), qui revendiquent une proximité retrouvée. Il se pourrait qu'aujourd'hui encore le terme de drame soit efficient en s'inscrivant au coeur d'une forme - le monologue - qui explore la parole quand elle se fait action, et ce, quel que soit le caractère hétérogène des écritures textuelles et scéniques qu'elle emprunte, à l'aune du théâtre dit postdramatique.

Literary Theory & Criticism --- drame --- monologue --- dialogue --- parole --- théâtre

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The poetry of Robert Browning has been the subject of extensive literary criticism since his death in 1889. Two well-known Browning scholars here present the best of Browning criticism, bringing together from many sources representative evaluations of the poet and his poetry. The twenty-one essays here have been arranged chronologically so that the reader can follow the development of Browning studies and the fluctuations of his poetic reputation. They express varied points of view and are typical of the critical methods used by the Browning scholars. Included are essays by George Santayana, J

Dramatic monologues --- Lyric poetry --- Monologue --- Monologues --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Browning, Robert, --- Brauning, Robert, --- Bŭrauning, --- Criticism and interpretation --- History.

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Finding good, interesting audition pieces is a demanding and difficult process for actresses. This revised edition of Actresses' Audition Speeches contains over 40 speeches and includes a wide selection of pieces taken from plays written or produced recently, such as Losing Louis , Whose Life is it Anyway? and His Dark Materials . There are speeches for a variety of accents and ages , taken from both classical and modern plays, to suit all audition requirements. There is also an introductory section containing advice from directors and casting directors on how to audition successfully.

Monologues. --- Recitations --- Acting --- Drama. --- Auditions. --- Drama --- Drama, Modern --- Dramas --- Dramatic works --- Plays --- Playscripts --- Stage --- Literature --- Dialogue --- Acting auditions --- Auditions --- Philosophy --- Monologues (Drama). --- Monologue.

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"In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, "charged humor," and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric of our beliefs--they challenge myths about how fair and democratic our society is and the behaviors and practices we enact to maintain those fictions. Jokes loaded with vitriol and delivered with verve, charged humor compels audiences to action, artfully summoning political critique. Since the institutionalization of stand-up comedy as a distinct cultural form, stand-up comics have leveraged charged humor to reveal social, political, and economic stratifications. All Joking Aside offers a history of charged comedy from the mid-twentieth century to the early aughts, highlighting dozens of talented comics from Dick Gregory and Robin Tyler to Micia Mosely and Hari Kondabolu. The popularity of charged humor has waxed and waned over the past sixty years. Indeed, the history of charged humor is a tale of intrigue and subversion featuring dive bars, public remonstrations, fickle audiences, movie stars turned politicians, commercial airlines, emergent technologies, neoliberal mind-sets, and a cavalcade of comic misfits with an ax to grind. Along the way, Krefting explores the fault lines in the modern economy of humor, why men are perceived to be funnier than women, the perplexing popularity of modern-day minstrelsy, and the way identities are packaged and sold in the marketplace. Appealing to anyone interested in the politics of humor and generating implications for the study of any form of popular entertainment, this history reflects on why we make the choices we do and the collective power of our consumptive practices. Readers will be delighted by the broad array of comic talent spotlighted in this book, and for those interested in comedy with substance, it will offer an alternative punchline"--amazon.com.

Participatory theater. --- Comedy --- Stand-up comedy --- Audience participatory theater --- Immersive theater --- Participation theater --- Theater --- Joking --- History and criticism. --- Comedy. --- Comédie --- Monologue comique --- PERFORMING ARTS --- Stand-up comedy. --- Théâtre --- Histoire et critique. --- Participation du public. --- United States.