This work defines the dramatic rationale of the Hamlet soliloquies in their dramatic contexts, thereby clarifying the tragic idea that organizes the play.

The Soliloquies were written by St. Augustine in the 4th-century. The two books contain an "inner dialogue" with questions, answers and thorough discussions, that finally aim to gain self-knowledge. While in the first book the dialogue longs to know a soul, it becomes evident in the second book that it is the author himself who wants to get to know his own.

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2, University of Bonn (Anglistik), course: Hamlet, language: English, abstract: “To be or not to be, that is the question” is one of the most famous speeches in the world. Its technical name is “soliloquy”. The soliloquy is a very important unit of the drama. Playwrights use or used this device to achieve many goals and convey many messages in the story-telling. The soliloquy as a unit of the drama is multifunctional. This paper gives a small idea about the structure and function of this unit of the drama. In the next step, different definitions of the term “soliloquy” from different points of views of different playwrights and analysts are mentioned. Afterwards, the paper gives a distinction of the term from other kinds of these speeches, especially the “Monologue” and the “Aside”. In the third section, it mentions some structural functions of it, and shows how it is used, why and what this device can do on the stage on the character and audience level.

A fresh, new translation of Augustine’s fourth work as a Christian convert The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are dialogues that have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. Usually called the Cassiciacum dialogues, these four works are of a high literary and intellectual quality, combining Ciceronian and neo-Platonic philosophy, Roman comedy and Vergilian poetry, and early Christian theology. They are also, arguably, Augustine’s most charming works, exhibiting his whimsical levity and ironic wryness. Soliloquies is the fourth work in this tetralogy. Augustine coined the term “soliloquy” to describe this new form of dialogue. Soliloquies, a conversation between Augustine and his reason, fuses the dialogue genre and Roman theater, opening with a search for intellectual and moral self-knowledge before converging on the nature of truth and the question of the soul’s immortality. Foley’s volume also includes On the Immortality of the Soul, which consists of notes for the unfinished portion of the work.

Twenty-seven soliloquies are examined in this work, illustrating how the spectator or reader is led to the soliloquy and how the drama is continued afterwards.

Constantine's great Empire once covered Europe, and in this epic verse he is depicted as ruminating upon his past. It is a story of struggle, intrigue and battle - ha makes no bones about his complicity in the murders of his wife and son.