Word: soliloquy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applicants, qualified for one of 20 places at the theatrical academy, no one except her mother believed it. One of her audition pieces, she says, and here she giggles at the thought of her innocent 17-year-old self, was part of Molly Bloom's erotic soliloquy from Ulysses...
...Civic Center soliloquy-"beauty is"-Leonard made sure to mention that besides Juanita, whom he married in 1980, little Ray and the rest of his family and friends, beauty is also "Fort Knox," "selling 7-Up" and "Sugar Ray Leonard...
...moving the "To be or not to be" speech and the ensuing Nunnery Scene to an earlier spot right after the Fishmonger Scene--thus following the highly abridged First Quarto of 1603 rather than the fuller Second Quarto or First Folio. Even so, Coe placed Shakespeare's most famous soliloquy after the Nunnery Scene, and in fact makes it a part of the discourses. Thus it is no longer a solioquy, but is addressed directly to Ophelia, to whom Hamlet gives his dagger while speaking it. I suppose that this is one way of making its nutoriously enigmatic thought seem...
Reports of the historical Hal's fun-loving and riotous youth date from his own time. But Shakespeare gives him just one self-revelatory soliloquy in which Hal claims that his carousing is essentially an act and that he knows full well what will be expected of him as a mature ruler. The notion that he is a pretender as well as the Pretender has upset many critics (Quiller-Couch went so far as to brand the speech Shakespeare's "most damnable piece of workmanship"). But it can make sense of one perceives that there are two Hals. Good...
Last Monday's City Council meeting, which set a modern record by lasting only about eight minutes, stunned council observers who have come to expect anything but short sessions from the soliloquy-minded councilors. Balloting for mayor was aborted because of the absence of Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, but next Monday's meeting will likely find the councilors well-rested and ready to go the distance in the race for the top political post on the council and in the city...