It is a soliloquy. A dialogue is between two people; soliloquy is more like self-introspection.
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Hamlet spoke the words in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
The term used when anyone is alone on the stage and speaks is soliloquy. Macbeth has a dandy soliloquy in act 1 scene 7 when he comes onto the stage alone and says, "If it were done when 'tis done, it were well it were done quickly."
Yes the ghost only speaks to Hamlet. The others can see him but cannot hear him. When the ghost visits Hamlet in his mother's closet, his mother can neither see nor hear him.
Juliet;s speech is a soliloquy, a device often used in drama when characters speaks to themselves This is the equivalent of letting the audience know what the actor (character) is thinking.
The antonym for soliloquy is dialogue. A soliloquy is when a character speaks their thoughts aloud to themselves, while a dialogue involves a conversation between two or more people.
No. Although the phrase does come from Hamlet, Hamlet does not speak it, as part of a soliloquy or otherwise. It is spoken by Polonius, and it is ironic, since Polonius is totally devious and deceptive and is false to many men, including his son Laertes to whom he speaks these words.
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Hamlet, about five times, Claudius and Gertrude.
Passages where the narrator speaks directly to the reader, the equivalent of soliloquy in drama.
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Hamlet spoke the words in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
Hamlet spoke the words in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
Dialog show how a character speaks so you can see the level of education and regional area where he or she lives.
The term is soliloquy.