How is soliloquy used in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet?
Watch an actor performing two of Hamlet's monologues in this discussion of the use of soliloquy in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Hamlet speaks his world-weary soliloquy “O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt” (Hamlet, Act I, scene 2).
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Gertrude is forced by Hamlet to face her own treachery in Act III, scene 4, of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Short excerpts from a Folger Shakespeare Library production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, with critical analysis by the cast and crew.
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© Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)An informal overview of Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy, particularly William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Hamlet.
