0 a speech in a play that the character speaks to himself or herself or to the people watching rather than to the other characters:
Hamlet's soliloquy starts "To be or not to be".
1 a speech in a play which the character speaks to himself or herself or to the people watching rather than to the other characters:
This soliloquy is nowadays performed facetiously, as a droll riff on bigotry.
Both outer movements also begin with a slow and free solo santur soliloquy which leads into a more rhythmic movement for the ensemble.
Operatic soliloquies interrupt dramatic time even more decisively than arias addressed to another character, their effect being one of undisturbed focalisation on the character on stage.
Medora epitomizes a feminine condition of enforced passivity, being limited to expression - soliloquies, prayers and laments - rather than action.
Morgan's opening soliloquy provides a clear illustration.
Is it to be supposed that he enters into a soliloquy with himself?
It seems to me that a one-man club will end in a soliloquy unless the man has a split personality.
Is this to be a debate or a series of soliloquies?
