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2 unusual facts about soliloquy


Soliloquy

The plays of William Shakespeare feature many soliloquies, the most famous being the "To be, or not to be" speech in Hamlet.

Macbeth's "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" speech and Juliet's "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" are other famous examples of Shakespearean soliloquies.


Camille Claudel

Composer Jeremy Beck's Death of a Little Girl with Doves (1998), an operatic soliloquy for soprano and orchestra, is based on the life and letters of Camille Claudel.

Dagger of the Mind

The title is taken from a soliloquy by the title character in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth.

Logbook

In Star Trek the Captain's log, a form of ship's log, is used to fill in the audience as to the events in progress, and acts as a more realistic form of soliloquy.

McCoy Tyner

Tyner still records and tours regularly and played from the 1980s through '90s with a trio that included Avery Sharpe on bass and first Louis Hayes, then Aaron Scott, on drums. He made a trio of solo recordings for Blue Note, starting with Revelations (1988) and culminating with Soliloquy (1991).

Somewhere I Have Never Traveled

In almost perfect English, a soliloquy by Ah-hsian of the passionate love sonnet Somewhere I have Never Traveled by E. E. Cummings portends a sad ending.

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

The whole soliloquy, starting at "Tomorrow", is quoted in Saints Row IV by Emperor Zinyak, the villain of the game, to illustrate the futility of human life and the struggle of the heroes against him.


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