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	Dramatic Monologue
		Victorian Reactions to Browning's Dramatic Monologues: " it was impossible to make sense of his poetry, they said, he must have gone mad, he was unreadable..."
		B. Springsteen's songs, such as "Born in the U.S.A." and "I'm on Fire," are dramatic monologues.
		Mew's Biography "Charlotte's poetry was distinctive for her development of dramatic monologue, set to meter with a sharp sense of flow.
	www.eng.fju.edu.tw /English_Literature/19th_c/Dramatic_Monologue.html (940 words)

	Critical Concepts: dramatic monologue
		Part of the art of composing a dramatic monologue is to work in features that cue the reader about what the situation is that she is to imagine.
		So: another task, in reading a dramatic monologue, is to infer what this unspeaking "you" is like, deducing what his social identity and his behavior must be from what we observe the speaker himself saying and doing.
		Some prayers or petitions invite being analyzed as dramatic monologues, and in the case of many of these the addressee is some divinity or a being that has attained some sort of god-like status.
	www.k-state.edu /english/baker/english320/cc-dramatic_monologue.htm (3728 words)

	Dramatic monologue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A dramatic monologue occurs when a character in fiction or in history speaks at a critical moment.
		The monologue is usually directed toward a silent audience, with the speaker's words influenced by a critical situation.
		An example of a dramatic monologue exists in My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, when a duke speaks to an emissary of his cruelty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dramatic_monologue (135 words)

	dramatic monologue -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A dramatic monologue (q.v.) is any speech of some duration addressed by a character to a second person.
		A soliloquy (q.v.) is a type of monologue in which a character directly addresses an audience or speaks his thoughts aloud while alone or while the other actors...
		A dramatic monologue is any speech of some duration addressed by a character to a silent audience of one or more people.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9343828?tocId=9343828&query=grafton (839 words)

	2C. Women Poets, Subjectivity and Dramatic Forms
		In his landmark study of the dramatic monologue, Robert Langbaum wonders if what he calls "the poetry of experience" is in fact " a new genre which abolishes the distinction between subjective and objective poetry and between the lyrical and dramatic or narrative genres" (54).
		The Tabitha Bramble poems contribute to a revisionary history of the monologue not only with respect to women writers or the character of the dramatized speaker, they are noteworthy for their resistance to sentimental as a form of complicity between the artist and hegemonic culture.
		The essential difference between this type of poetry and the dramatic monologue is the following: a dramatic monologue focuses on an identified speaker in a special, tension-filled moment; a monodrama focuses on the tension that results from a series of sustained poses or Attitudes.
	www.rc.umd.edu /reference/misc/confarchive/2c.html (2868 words)

	Robert Browning's Use of the Dramatic Monologue.
		It is arguably a paradigm of dramatic monologue, with a speaker identified in the title, and an interlocutor identified in his social relationship to the speaker.
		Orality, in terms of sound and rhetorical mannerisms characterize Browning's dramatic monologues and this is especially true of both Fra Lippo Lippi and Andrea del Sarto.
		Dramatic monologues usually integrate the props and the setting in the speaker's words.
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	DITL - article Dramatic monologue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The «drama» in Browning's dramatic monologues lies not in the relation between the speaker and the silent listener, but between the speaker and the reader, who supplies the missing parts of the speaker's one-sided account.
		The dramatic monologue is a favorite genre of some of the most important poets in English and, especially, American modernism, e.g., Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Conrad Aiken, Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, and Robert Lowell.
		The precursor of the dramatic monologue was the theatrical genre the monodrama or monologue, popular in France, Germany, and England in the latter part of the 18th centry and the beginning of the 19th.
	www.ditl.info /art/definition.php?term=2995 (386 words)

	MSN Encarta - Robert Browning
		It was followed by a dramatic poem, “Paracelsus” (1835), that brought him into prominence among the literary figures of the day.
		Concerning the events of a 17th-century Italian murder trial, the Ring is an extended dramatic monologue among a number of characters and has been praised as a perceptive psychological study.
		He is most famous for the development of the dramatic monologue, for his psychological insight, and for his forceful, colloquial poetic style.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577090/Browning_Robert.html (415 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Glossary - DE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dramatic Poetry: Any lyric work that employs elements of drama such as dialogue, conflict, or characterization, but excluding works that are intended for stage presentation.
		In dramatic writing, the exposition is the introductory material which presents the characters, setting, and tone of the play.
		An example of dramatic exposition occurs in many nineteenth-century drawing-room comedies in which the butler and the maid open the play with relevant talk about their master and mistress; in composition, exposition relays factual information, as in encyclopedia entries.
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	AllRefer.com - monologue (Literature, General) - Encyclopedia
		monologue, an extended speech by one person only.
		Strindberg's one-act play The Stronger, spoken entirely by one person, is an extreme example of monologue.
		Soliloquy is synonymous, but usually refers to a character in a play talking or thinking aloud to himself, giving the audience information essential to the plot.
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	Monologue - Repository - directory - mono: trunk/monologue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dramatic monologue in poetry, also known as a persona poem, Because a dramatic monologue is by definition one person’s speech, it is offered without
		A monologue (or monolog) is a speech by one person directly addressing an audience.
		When discussing the poetic form of dramatic monologue it is rare that it is not Caliban Upon Setebos is a dramatic monologue whose speaker is a literary
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	Dramatic Monologue: An Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Definitions of the dramatic monologue, a form invented and practiced principally by Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Rossetti, and other Victorians, have been much debated in the last several decades.
		Everyone agrees that to be a dramatic monologue a poem must have a speaker and an implied auditor, and that the reader often perceives a gap between what that speaker says and what he or she actually reveals.
		We complete the dramatic scene from within, by means of inference and imagination.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/rb/dm1.html (227 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Personality: dramatic monologue
		The monologues in Personality are "dramatic", both because they are in character and because they follow the habits of speech.
		Robert Browning was the great technician of the dramatic monologue, specialising in poems in which the speaker would reveal more about him or herself than evidently intended.
		Most of the novel's dramatic monologues are glimpses of family history, of what might explain Maria's ambition and self-torment.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1395008,00.html (677 words)

	Discuss the origins and characteristics of the dramatic monologue.
		Discuss the origins and characteristics of the dramatic monologue.
		Below is a short sample of the essay "Discuss the origins and characteristics of the dramatic monologue.".
		We learn that the Duke is showing a painting of his last Duchess to an implied listener and whilst doing so explains the story of her death, the crisis point.
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	Creating Dramatic Monologues from The Grapes of Wrath--Literature lesson plan (grades 9-12)--DiscoverySchool.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A dramatic monologue is a type of poem (generally free verse, in a very conversational tone) that is voiced by a single speaker to a quiet listener or to the reader.
		If using primary sources for the dramatic monologues, choose visuals, such as photos of the migrant workers’ children and families and the migrant camps, rather than sources that are chiefly documents.
		Limit dramatic monologue choices to voices that do not require political background, for example, a child, mother, or father living at a migrant camp, a teacher volunteering at a migrant camp, or a doctor or nurse administering to the migrant workers and their families.
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	dramatic monologue -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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		Interior monologues encompass several forms, including dramatized inner conflicts,...
		Watch Jocasta's monologue on the news of her redemption of free will over preordainment.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9343828?tocId=9343828&query=grafton (839 words)

	Discover What Is A Monologue and More!
		CASINA A monologue from the play by Titus Maccius Plautus NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Plautus, vol.
		Monologue #1 from The Calling by Rhonda Melanson (drama, 5 min., characters: 1: female) A...
		We are a monologue subscription service for actors.....Jed Staton (East Sussex, GB) About Us..The Monologue Shop is a dynamic and growing.....of their work...
	www.comedic-monologues.com /what-is-a-monologue (287 words)

	Glossary of Literary Terms
		dramatic monologue (dra-MA-tik mon'-O-lôg): a literary device that is used when a character reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings, those that are hidden throughout the course of the story line, through a poem or a speech.
		Verbal irony occurs when either the speaker means something totally different than what he is saying or the audience realizes, because of their knowledge of the particular situation to which the speaker is referring, that the opposite of what a character is saying is true.
		Dramatic irony occurs when facts are not known to the characters in a work of literature but are known by the audience.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm (9849 words)

	Mr. Tessin's page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When you give your speech it must be 5 minutes long, you must be in costume, have a prop, and present your words in a dramatic way, as though you really were that character.
		Either the introduction, body, or conclusion was weak or missing.
		The introduction, body, or conclusion was inadequate, weak and or missing.
	www.sheldon.k12.vt.us /Tessin/dramaticmonologue.html (830 words)

	94.02.05: Dramatic Interpretation of Monologue Poems
		The poems chosen are monologues through which individual characters express and reveal themselves, and provide a firm foundation upon which the actor may build his or her own interpretation of that character.
		The words of the monologue will then become not words being read or recited, but words spoken from the depths of a whole being who is implicitly capable of speaking other words in other times or places.
		Students who have selected Prufrock as one of their monologue projects will rehearse the monologue in front of the class, having established where Prufrock is, what he is doing, and with whom he is speaking.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1994/2/94.02.05.x.html (4506 words)

	Dead White Males » Blog Archive » Robert Browning and the Dramatic Monologue
		Robert Browning and the genre of poetry he is most famous for, the dramatic monologue, are the focus of our show.
		Today’s Literary Term: Dramatic Monologue - a 19th century form of lyric poetry perfected by Robert Browning in which a speaker other than the poet utters “a speech” in a specific dramatic moment.
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	Dramatic Monologue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		a single person, who is not the poet, utters the entire monologue in a specific situation at a critical moment.
		the monologue is so organized that the focus is on the temperament and character that the speaker unintentionally reveals in the course of what he says.
		Their individual purpose is not to lay bare their personalities, but that is what they do in the course of the monologue.
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	EDSITEment Lesson - Printer Friendly
		The Duke's monologue in "My Last Duchess" unveils his persona as courteous, cultured, and terrifying, as he describes a portrait of his late wife in stark detail.
		Note the definition of dramatic monologue, Browning's role in the history of the form, and his subsequent influence on modernists such as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
		to be a dramatic monologue a poem must have a speaker and an implied auditor, and the reader often perceives a gap between what that speaker says and what he or she actually reveals
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	Dramatic Monologue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Browning's monologues typically consist of an uninterrupted narrative spoken by a single character to a specific audience.
		Each dramatic monologue (d.m)., should display: 1) a speaker, 2) an identified audience, 3) an occasion, 4) interplay between speaker and audience, which takes place in the present, and 5) revelation of character.
		From that narrative we can work out a) the circumstances in which it is spoken, b) the preceding history of the speaker, especially whatever explains the occasion of the narrative, and c) the character and motives of the speaker.
	mason.gmu.edu /~lsmithg/275mono.htm (491 words)

	English 456: Advanced Studies in Genre (The Dramatic Monologue)
		Write a short (2-4 pp.) explication of either a Browning dramatic monologue or a Tennyson monologue.The paper should discuss content principally, but should include a short and thorough description rhythm and rhyme patterns.Select poem by Sept. 10; present paper in class on day of assigned reading.
		Final paper (8-10 pp.) assessing the significance of the dramatic monologue as a modern poetic form.
		If you wish, you may range a little afield and attempt to compare the genre with some other genre (it need ot necessarily be literary), in order to attempt to see how the formal properties of genre may well be historically embedded.
	www.willamette.edu /~knolley/genre/e456syl.htm (449 words)

	Audition Monologues: Dramatic and Comedic Monologue News for 05-05-2007
		Audition Monologues: Dramatic and Comedic Monologue News for 05-05-2007
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	www.monologueblog.net /2007/05/dramatic_and_co_4.html (35 words)

	Arts - Literature - Poetry - Forms - Dramatic Monologue - Newsletter - News - Reviews - Education - Ratings
		dramatic monologue Monologue a poem in which a single speaker who is not the poet utters the entire poem at a critical moment.
		A brief description and definition of dramatic monologue, with an example and links to related online material.
		THE DRAMATIC MONOLGUE A dramatic monologue is a combination of the words dramatic and monologue (obviously The dramatic says that it could be acted out, and is a form of drama, while the monologue defines it as a...
	newsletter-library.com /Arts/Literature/Poetry/Forms/Dramatic_Monologue (155 words)

	William Shakespeare: Monologues
		As You Like It - dramatic monologue for a man or woman.
		Henry VI, Part II - dramatic monologue for a man.
		Henry VI, Part II - dramatic monologue for a woman.
	www.monologuearchive.com /s/shakespeare_william.html (252 words)

	dramatic monologue
		In some ways they have more in common with dramatic soliloquies in which an actor, alone on the stage, reveals his or her thoughts, than with other poems we've read spoken by a single voice.
		Tennyson bases his dramatic speaker on a classical hero from Ithaca in classical Greece, and Browning fictionalises a historical figure from Ferrara in the late Italian Renaissance.
		Browning emphasised his self-conscious crossing of genre boundaries when he referred to "My Last Duchess" as a "dramatic lyric" and we generally refer to these poems as dramatic monologues.
	emsah.uq.edu.au /courses/engl1000/11_dram_mono.htm (531 words)

	Curtain of Green Essays - Dialect and Dramatic Monologue of Curtain of Green
		Dialect and Dramatic Monologue of Curtain of Green
		Her stories are rich in dialect and often take the form of dramatic monologues, as in "Why I live at the P.O." and "The Petrified Man."
		It is through this structure that the dramatic monologue appears.
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