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Situational Irony
Definition of Soliloquy
A soliloquy is a literary device, most often found in dramas, in which a character speaks to him or herself, relating his or her innermost thoughts and feelings as if... read full definition
A soliloquy is a literary device, most often found in dramas, in which a character speaks to him or herself, relating his or her innermost... read full definition
A soliloquy is a literary device, most often found in dramas, in which a character speaks to him or herself... read full definition
Key Examples in The Revenger’s Tragedy
Act 1, Scene 1
Explanation and Analysis—That Marrowless Age:
The Revenger’s Tragedy opens with a soliloquy from Vindice as he watches the Duke of an unnamed Italian principality and his family walk together in a royal procession. In his soliloquy, Vindice condemns the royal family for their immoral behavior and sets the stage for the play by introducing its primary antagonists.
Duke: royal lecher; go, grey-haired adultery,
And thou his son, as impious steeped as he:
And thou his bastard true-begot in evil:
And thou his duchess that will do with devil.
Four excellent characters – O that marrowless age
Would stuff the hollow bones with damned desires,
And ’stead of heat kindle infernal fire
Within the spendthrift veins of a dry duke.
A parched and juiceless luxur. O God! One
That has scarce blood enough to live upon,
And he to riot it like a son and heir?
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