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Author:   A. D. Cousins (Macquarie University, Sydney) ,  Daniel Derrin (Durham University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781316623893

ISBN 10:   1316623890
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   23 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction A.D. Cousins and Daniel Derrin; 1. Roman soliloquy Joseph A. Smith; 2. Tudor transformations Raphael Falco; 3. Doubtful battle: Marlowe's soliloquies Liam Semler; 4. Shakespeare and the female voice in soliloquy Catherine Bates; 5. Contemplative idiots in soliloquy: rhetorical parody, laughable deformity and the audience Daniel Derrin; 6. Giving voice to history in Shakespeare David Bevington; 7. Hamlet and of truth: humanism and the disingenuous soliloquy A. D. Cousins; 8. Choosing between shame and guilt: Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and King Lear Patrick Gray; 9. 'Too hot, too hot': the rhetorical poetics of soliloquies in Shakespeare's late plays Kate Aughterson; 10. Ben Jonson's Roman soliloquies James Loxley; 11. Ben Jonson's comic selves Brian Woolland; 12. 'In such a whisp'ring and withdrawing hour': speaking solus in Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy and the Lady's Tragedy Andrew Hiscock; 13. John Ford's soliloquies: solitude interrupted Huw Griffiths; 14. Davenant's Macbeth: soliloquy, counter-revolution, and restoration Dani Napton and A. D. Cousins; 15. What were soliloquies in plays by Shakespeare and other late Renaissance dramatists? An empirical approach James Hirsh; Select Bibliography; Index.

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'... scholars and teachers of early modern drama will find Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama a valuable resource that furthers our understanding of the uses of this important rhetorical device.' Emily Shortslef, Renaissance Quarterly

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A. D. Cousins is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a member of the Order of Australia. He has published fifteen books in America and England, including monographs on Andrew Marvell, Thomas More, Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, and religious verse of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has been a visiting adjunct professor at the Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Center at the University of Massachusetts, a visiting scholar at Princeton University and at Pennsylvania State University, and a library fellow at the Library of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He holds doctorates in both English literature and political theory. Daniel Derrin is a research fellow in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. He has published in the areas of early modern rhetorical theory, drama, comedy, Shakespeare, and the writing of John Donne. He was awarded the S. Ernest Sprott fellowship for 2014–15 from the University of Melbourne, which was completed at the Warburg Institute, and has been an associate investigator for the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

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