While writing the novel Hamnet, which imagines the hidden origins of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the author Maggie O’Farrell did something counterintuitive: She avoided referencing or quoting the ...

In this series of videos from Shakespeare Uncovered, students explore the use of soliloquy as a device to reveal character and advance plot. They consider how using soliloquy perhaps more truthfully ...

Allan Clayton performs an excerpt from Hamlet's famous soliloquy, "To be, or not to be." Allan Clayton performs an excerpt from Hamlet's famous Act I soliloquy, "To be, or not to be" in the Met's ...

The draft of MLK's most famous speech lacked its most famous lines. The 'I Have a Dream' part was suggested by Mahalia Jackson as King neared the end of his 1963 speech at the Lincoln Memorial. As the ...

A soliloquy is a speech that a character delivers while they are alone onstage or believe themselves to be alone. It is a device used in drama to reveal the character’s innermost thoughts and ...