Rabbi Ben Ezra: see biographical sketch subjoined to the Argument of the Monologue entitled `Rabbi Ben Ezra'.
Originally, this monologue and that now entitled `Count Gismond.
The speaker in this monologue is the wife of a poet, and she tells the story to her husband, of the little cricket that came to the aid of the musician who was contending for a prize, when one of the strings of his lyre snapped.
A monologue often begins with a startling abruptness, and the reader must read along some distance before he gathers what the beginning means.
The monologue is a signal example of `emotional ratiocination'.
On his way back toward daybreak, he is throttled by the police, and it is to them the monologue is addressed.
The dramatic monologue differs from a soliloquy in this: while there is but one speaker, the presence of a silent second person is supposed, to whom the arguments of the speaker are addressed.
The lyrico-dramatic verse of this monologue is especially noticeable.
As an example of this, take the following passage from the monologue of the Canon Caponsacchi.
The monologue is a choice bit of grotesque humor touched with pathos.
The Monologueis addressed by a happy husband to his "perfect wife, my Leonor".
This monologue is addressed by a poet to a brother-poet whom he finds fault with for speaking naked thoughts instead of draping them in sights and sounds.
When the nobleman had finished his monologue a few minutes' silence ensued.
If the latter, which seems to me more dramatic, and more like Browning, then the monologue is murmured by the solitary knight as he advances on his darkening path.
These other figures, though they do not speak, are necessary to the understanding of the monologue; we often see them plainly, and see their faces change in expression as the monologue advances.
The monologue of the dying Bishop is as great a masterpiece as My Last Duchess; it has not a superfluous word, and in only a few lines gives us the spirit of the Italian Renaissance.
The dramatic monologue is a dynamic revelation of a soul in action, not a mere static bit of character study.
For the dramatic monologue is in essence a dialogue of which we hear only the chief speaker's part, as in "My Last Duchess," or in E.
The dramatic monologueis well discussed by Claude Howard, The Dramatic Monologue, and by S.
Undoubtedly the swift, urgent monologue is quickened, reinforced, by the consciousness of an audience present.
But it does not dominate the speaker's mind; it does not turn monologue into dialogue; the speech is monologue still.
Do not forget, if I do, to remind me of the story of the monologue of Tasso.
It is not a powerful sort of monologue like "Fazio," where the interest centres in one person and one passion, and therefore if that character is well sustained the rest can shift for itself.
It would be suicide for me after struggling all these years to make my public weep to return to a vulgar monologue and make people laugh!
Lackaye suggested that it would be quite a novelty for this player to revert to one of his old-time specialties and present a shortmonologue as a Baxter Street Jew, which once had made this particular actor famous.
The author imagines a monologue of the wicked, led by despair of aught beyond the grave to a life of luxury and oppression.
Another imaginary monologue expresses the feelings of the same wicked men as they awaken from death to the life beyond.
According to him, the most remarkable portion of the score is the monologue of Marguerite at her window, which closes the third act.
There are plenty of accents of genuine passion noticeable in the course of the work, such as those in the great duet between Manon and Des Grieux; also in the fine monologue of the latter.
He seldom deliberately searches for a theme--more often some laugh-provoking incident or sentence gives him an idea and he builds it into a monologue with its subject for the theme.
The Parody Monologist--who opens and closes with funny parodies on the latest song hits and does a monologue routine between songs.
Finally, every point leads out of the preceding point so naturally, and blends into the following point so inevitably, that the entire monologue is a smooth and perfect whole.
The only difference between a pure monologue and any other kind is in the addition of entertainment features that are not connected gags and points.
Not a Disconnected String of Stories Nor, in the strictest vaudeville sense, is a monologue merely a string of stories that possesses no unity as a whole and owns as its sole reason of being that of amusement and entertainment.
Therefore, in selecting material the monologuewriter should choose those gags and points that can be told in pictures, and every word he uses should be a picture-word.
Many a monologue has sold for five dollars, and the purchaser been "stung" at that price.
Weary and Pink were finding things to say, also, but old Applehead went on with his monologue just as though they were listening.
Which stirred old Applehead to an irritated monologue upon the theme of certain persons whose ignorance is not blissful, but trouble-inviting.
I heard Talma declaim the monologuein his pompous style.
It was like all such parts,--a score of lines strewn throughout the play and a monologueat the end.
And you can do it, I know and am sure--so sure, that I could find in my heart to be jealous of your stopping in the way even to translate the Prometheus; though the accompanying monologue will make amends too.
Monologue to a Young Jackass in Jesus Piece, 119 n.
As part of his method, it should be noted that his real trust is upon monologue rather than upon dialogue.
It is not merely that the monologue is too long: it is too inapt, in its poetic richness, for its purpose.
Then Symmes took up his well-rehearsed monologue about the wealth he'd witnessed, stories of potential trade that had earned him a place at many a merchant's table.
One of the few things he had never forgotten from Symmes's monologue of hallucinations and dreams was the name Miguel Vaijantes.
To one of the lesser theatres and heard a monologue by the elder Mathews, who died a year or two after this time.
Footnote 189: Notice the long monologue of the Cassaria in which Lucramo describes the fashionable follies of Ferrara.
Footnote 195: The quite unquotable but characteristic monologue which opens the third act is an epitome of Margherita's character.
It might, as one critic pointed out, be more of a monologue act for Winfield Knight than a play, but that did not affect Rutherford.
His progress through the room resembled in almost equal proportions the finish of a Marathon race, the star-act of a professional juggler, and a monologue by an Earl's Court side-showman.
She hated as much as anyone the sickening blows which Fate hands out to the struggling and ambitious; but she never made them the basis of a monologue act.
A Polish orchestra that had been hitherto unsuccessful against the shrill monologueof Orson, and the occasional laughter of the ladies, now sent out a sudden, fierce stream of melody.
While the supper went on, Orson Vane did a little monologue of his own.
Mr. Coleridge possessed the art of monologue in perfection, but not that of the dialogue; yet it comes near to hitting the truth from her point of view.
The habit of monologuewhich Coleridge favoured lies open to three fatal objections: 1.
Now, for purposes such as these themonologue is admirably adapted.
Excluding the regular dramas, nearly all his work of the period under consideration is either dramatic monologue or closely akin to it.
Reasons may easily be found to account for the fact that dramatic monologue proved so much more suitable to the genius of Browning than either the regular drama or any other form of verse.
