Neil Corcoran is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Reading Shakespeare's Soliloquies makes a consistently engaging and though-provoking contribution to this conversation ... I particularly appreciated both the assessible writing style and the emphasis on the interplay between text and performance; this is a book that I would gladly lend t the theatre majors who are skeptical that the academic study of Shakespeare has anything to say to them.

• List of IllustrationsPrefacePart ISoliloquies in Practice 1. Is this a dagger?2. Attributes of soliloquy Part IISoliloquies in Theory1. Now I am alone2. Origins3. Soliloquies and Self4. Staging Soliloquies5. Some Kinds of Soliloquy6. The Mind's ConstructionPart IIISoliloquies in PerformanceIntroduction1. Noma Dumezweni2. Mariah Gale3. Lucian Msamati4. Pippa Nixon5. Jonjo O’Neill6. Jonathan Slinger7. Alex Waldmann8. Dame Harriet WalterPart IVSoliloquies in PlayPreface1. Richard in Richard III, with Henry VI, Part 32. Romeo and Juliet3. OthelloNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

Neil Corcoran is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Reading Shakespeare's Soliloquies makes a consistently engaging and though-provoking contribution to this conversation ... I particularly appreciated both the assessible writing style and the emphasis on the interplay between text and performance; this is a book that I would gladly lend t the theatre majors who are skeptical that the academic study of Shakespeare has anything to say to them.

• List of IllustrationsPrefacePart ISoliloquies in Practice 1. Is this a dagger?2. Attributes of soliloquy Part IISoliloquies in Theory1. Now I am alone2. Origins3. Soliloquies and Self4. Staging Soliloquies5. Some Kinds of Soliloquy6. The Mind's ConstructionPart IIISoliloquies in PerformanceIntroduction1. Noma Dumezweni2. Mariah Gale3. Lucian Msamati4. Pippa Nixon5. Jonjo O’Neill6. Jonathan Slinger7. Alex Waldmann8. Dame Harriet WalterPart IVSoliloquies in PlayPreface1. Richard in Richard III, with Henry VI, Part 32. Romeo and Juliet3. OthelloNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

Neil Corcoran is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Reading Shakespeare's Soliloquies makes a consistently engaging and though-provoking contribution to this conversation ... I particularly appreciated both the assessible writing style and the emphasis on the interplay between text and performance; this is a book that I would gladly lend t the theatre majors who are skeptical that the academic study of Shakespeare has anything to say to them.

• List of IllustrationsPrefacePart ISoliloquies in Practice 1. Is this a dagger?2. Attributes of soliloquy Part IISoliloquies in Theory1. Now I am alone2. Origins3. Soliloquies and Self4. Staging Soliloquies5. Some Kinds of Soliloquy6. The Mind's ConstructionPart IIISoliloquies in PerformanceIntroduction1. Noma Dumezweni2. Mariah Gale3. Lucian Msamati4. Pippa Nixon5. Jonjo O’Neill6. Jonathan Slinger7. Alex Waldmann8. Dame Harriet WalterPart IVSoliloquies in PlayPreface1. Richard in Richard III, with Henry VI, Part 32. Romeo and Juliet3. OthelloNotesSelect BibliographyIndex