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Soliloquy is;

  • A monologue delivered by a single actor with no one else onstage, sometimes played as the character "thinking aloud" and sometimes as a seeming dialogue with the (silent) audience.[1]
  • Further more: Soliloquy may be a;

direct address A character's speech delivered directly to the audience, common in Greek Old Comedy (see parabasis), in Shakespeare's work (see soliloquy), in epic theatre, and in some otherwise realistic modern plays (such as Neil Simon's Broadway Bound).


King Leopold's Soliloquy (political satire) is a soliloquy that can be found at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/86