Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-465) and index
The representation of thought and the representation of speech -- From antiquity to the middle of the sixteenth century -- The late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century -- Shakespeare's soliloquies : the representation of speech -- Shakespeare's soliloquies : audience address and self-address -- "To be, or not to be" -- From the late seventeenth century to the twentieth century -- Shakespeare's soliloquies transformed -- "The celebrated soliloquy"
