A Study of the Drama
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The fact is that when Shakspere and Moliere came to the theater, they foUnd the soliloquy a labor-saving contrivance that they took over without bestowing a thought on the principle underlying it. This principle, if formally declared, would be that the soliloquy is a means of exposing to the spectators the actual thoughts of a character when he is alone. In other words, an actor soliloquizing must be supposed to be thinking aloud. But so little did either Shakspere or Moliere care for the princ...iple involved, that both of them unhesitatingly set before us a character soliloquizing and yet overheard by some other character. This is a contradiction in terms, if we analyze it philosophic cally, — but that is exactly what was not attempted by either of these great dramatists or by any of the play- goers of their times. What to us may seem an arrant ISO A STUDY OF THE DRAMA absurdity is to be found as early as Terence and as late as Beaumarchais. Shakspere lets Romeo overhear Juliet's soliloquizing on the balcony; and Moliere ia as careless in the "Miser." There was a clever man once who justified his habit of talking to himself by two good reasons, — he liked to talk to a man of sense and he liked to hear a man of sense talk.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The fact is that when Shakspere and Moliere came to the theater, they foUnd the soliloquy a labor-saving contrivance that they took over without bestowing a thought on the principle underlying it. This principle, if formally declared, would be that the soliloquy is a means of exposing to the spectators the actual thoughts of a character when he is alone. In other words, an actor soliloquizing must be supposed to be thinking aloud. But so little did either Shakspere or Moliere care for the princ...iple involved, that both of them unhesitatingly set before us a character soliloquizing and yet overheard by some other character. This is a contradiction in terms, if we analyze it philosophic cally, — but that is exactly what was not attempted by either of these great dramatists or by any of the play- goers of their times. What to us may seem an arrant ISO A STUDY OF THE DRAMA absurdity is to be found as early as Terence and as late as Beaumarchais. Shakspere lets Romeo overhear Juliet's soliloquizing on the balcony; and Moliere ia as careless in the "Miser." There was a clever man once who justified his habit of talking to himself by two good reasons, — he liked to talk to a man of sense and he liked to hear a man of sense talk.
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