“But then Shakespeare had a thought: What if a character had a conversation – with himself.”

Before Shakespeare invented the soliloquy, actors spoke in monologues and dialogues.  Soliloquys are a radical combination of the uninterrupted speech of one person (in monologues) with the tension created by expressing two different perspectives (in dialogues). Soliloquys demonstrate how a character can go back and forth when weighing both sides … Read More