Word: soliloquy
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...mused Molly Tweedy Bloom in her celebrated life-affirming soliloquy, which closes James Joyce's Ulysses. Probably the most famous citizen of Gibraltar, fictional or otherwise, Molly today would find the free and easy ways and the regimental glamour of her hot-blooded youth in the 1890s to be vastly changed. On the Spanish side, in the little border towns of La Roque and La Linea, the Spanish cavalry has given way to commonplace infantry and militiamen, while on Gibraltar itself the Black Watch and the Lancers are only a memory, currently being replaced by the Middlesex Regiment...
...trills which reminds me of an electric doorbell," she warned. An ornament should "fill space with arabesques." How to begin to play a piece? "One has to concentrate and be entirely ready so that when the first note is struck, it comes as a sort of continuation of a soliloquy already begun. Similarly the last note is never the last. It is rather a point of departure for something to come." She was, in a way, describing her own lifework-the continuation of a centuries-old musical soliloquy, and, because of her eloquence, intelligence and devotion, a strong new point...
Swan Song is a long soliloquy by an old actor, Vassily Vassilyith Svetlovidov (John Ross), punctuated occasionally by remarks from an equally ancient prompter (Peter Weil), whom Svetlovidov finds in a deserted theater. Svetlovidov is alternately pathetic and ridiculous, as he recalls his life on the stage...
John Peakes is a forceful Thomas whose physical and vocal authority allows him to command most of his scenes. But he delivers a why-didn't-Christ-appear-to-me soliloquy with such whiney petulance ("I worked for Him more than all the others, but He only granted peace to them.. When He went to Gethsemane, He only took Peter...", etc.), that the hero's integrity is immediately shattered...
Among the many questions to be settled by any player is how much of Hamlet's madness is real and how much feigned. For Sawyer, a good deal is real. In the "rogue and peasant slave" soliloquy he even becomes quite violently deranged. He does not give us the 18th-century melancholy aristocrat, or the 19th-century fragile neurasthenic. Nor does he recall Barrymore's Laborious Hamlet, or Olivier's Athletic Hamlet, or Weaver's Feverish Hamlet...