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soliloquy: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

● anchor · dramatic convention Nearest construct by meaning·not indexed
soliloquy1 CONSTRUCTSoliloquyDRAMA · ALONE

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Drama

A character alone voicing inner thought aloud

A soliloquy is a dramatic convention in which a character, alone on stage, speaks their thoughts aloud so that the audience hears the inner life they would not reveal to other characters, the device of Hamlet's deliberations. Pfister's The Theory and Analysis of Drama and Pavis's Dictionary of the Theatre distinguish it from ordinary dialogue and from the aside by its solitary, sustained disclosure of a mind to the audience. The referent is a monological speech act that opens a character's interior to the spectator while the fiction holds that no one else hears.[1][2]

Unit
A solitary onstage speech disclosing a character's inner thought to the audience
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Identified as a sustained speech by a character alone on stage, pitched past the fiction to the audience

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References

  1. Pfister, M. (1988). The theory and analysis of drama. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521423830
  2. Pavis, P. (1998). Dictionary of the theatre: Terms, concepts, and analysis (C. Shantz, Trans.). University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802081636

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