Browning and the Dramatic MonologueCurry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
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Browning and the Dramatic Monologue
Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 -- Criticism and interpretation; Dramatic monologues -- History and criticism
Attention, key to dramatic, 181
shown by pivotal action, 182-186
Attitude, importance of, 195
Barrack-Room Ballads are monologues, 128
_Before Sedan_, Dobson, 84
Biglow Papers are monologues, 19
Bishop Blougram's Apology, listener in, 41-42
_Bishop orders his Tomb_, 285
listener in, 53
dramatic argument of, 91-94
BODY, ACTIONS OF MIND AND, 172-195
=BRET HARTE'S=, _In a Tunnel_, 173
_Bridge of Sighs_, =HOOD=, 209
metre of, 211
=BROWNING=
_Patriot, The_, 3
_Woman's Last Word, A_, 6
_Confessions_, 7
_Youth and Art_, 21
_Incident of the French Camp_, 33
_Rabbi Ben Ezra_, 36
_Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister_, 58
_Up at a Villa--Down in the City_, 65
A Grammarian's Funeral, 72
At the Mermaid, 74
_My Last Duchess_, 96
_Lost Mistress_, 106
_Tray_, 143
_One Way of Love_, 150
_Italian in England_, 152
_Wanting is--What?_ 157
_Memorabilia_, 160
_A Tale_, 164
_In a Year_, 201
_Lost Leader_, 212
_Evelyn Hope_, 216
_Appearances_, 265
_Andrea del Sarto_, 265
_Muleykeh_, 272
_Count Gismond_, 275
_By the Fireside_, 277
_Pheidippides_, 281
_Prospice_, 284
_Bishop orders his Tomb_, 285
_Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis_, 288
_Abt Vogler_, 290
_Saul_, 293
Why not appreciated, 1-2
Invented monologue, 1-2
his art form, 7
dramatic, 9-10
compared with Leigh Hunt, 25-26
influence of, 48
compared with Tennyson, 52
compared with Shakespeare, 55-61
soliloquies are monologues, 58-61
obscurity of, 71-81
master of monologue, 131-132
grotesque, element in, 229
variety of his themes, 263-264
=BURNS=, monologues in, 117-120
_O wert thou in the cauld blast_, 118
_By the Fireside_, 277
Caliban upon Setebos, character of, 24
speaker in, 24
Caudle, Mrs., _On the Umbrella_, 139
Character of speaker must be realized, 138
=CHESTERTON=, on personal element in story-telling, 86
on Clive and Muleykeh, 125
justifies Browning's grotesque language, 229
=CHURCHILL, J. W.=, rendering of Sam Lawson, 16
Cleon, monologue or letter, 18
Clive, illustrates person spoken of, 54
why a monologue, 126
_Confessions_, 7
Connection, importance of first words to the, 79-80
Consistency, law of, 235-237
Conversation, elements of, 159
_Count Gismond_, 275
speaker in, 16
=CUSHMAN, CHARLOTTE=, her rendering of monologue, 236-237
Definition of monologue, 7
Delivery
nature of, 134
important in monologue, 133-136
three languages in, complementary, 135-136
DIALECT, 222-230
must be dramatic, 222-223
in Riley, Burns, Tennyson, 223
not literal, 224-225
dramatic, 225-226
results from assimilation, 227
must express character, 228-229
part of grotesque, 229-230
_Didn't know Flynn_, =BRET HARTE=, 173
_Dieudonne_, Dr. Drummond, 225
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