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Dramatic monologue1/6/2024 Shabe is caught in a trap and being blackmailed to commit a murder he has no intention of committing. Danny and the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley Danny has a brilliant, funny, fresh monologue where he says. Harley unexpectedly arrives at the house of Art & Pam and can’t wait to movie in. Baron has rounded up some great dramatic monologues for men to get you started. Marlo has to always deal with his pain in the ass cousin’s troublemaking ways. Jerzy’s future has always been about taking over the family business but his father has a shocker waiting for him. Patricia has ruined her friendship by sharing a secret with her husband.Ĭlyde is on his leg leg as he battles to keep his business afloat. Jackie wants the best for her daughter in business but in order for her to be good in business she has to respect her point of view. Marza has been enlightened when she sees a reflection of herself by watching a play.Ĭorky blurts our a rant of her life’s problems to two strangers in their apartment. 10 Dramatic Monologues for All AgesĪvy has made new friends with a troubled fashion reporter during a live catwalk show. Robert Browning, “ Fra Lippo Lippi,” “An Epistle Containing the Strange Medial Experience of Karshish, and “Caliban upon Setebos” (1864).Įlizabeth Barrett Browning, “Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (1848) and “A Curse for a Nation” (1857).10 Dramatic Monologues for All Ages for Men/Women is a quick compilation of drama material for your next audition, workshop or video upload. Doctor Pennington,” Mary Mapes Dodge “Women as Poets,” Browning’s poems (listed below), and “The African’s Complaint on Board a Slave Ship” from Gentleman’s Magazine, 1793.Īugusta Webster, “Poets and Personal Pronouns” (1878) Eells “Impromptu Stanzas, Suggested by the Working of the Fugitive Slave Act, as Illustrated in the Case of Rev. In the afternoon session we focused our discussion on “Edith” by Augusta Webster, Lewis Carroll, J.M. As much as possible we sought to understand the ubiquity of the dramatic monologue and the nineteenth-century reader’s continual exposure to the genre before it was marked as such. Together we thought through the convention of speaking as an “other” and the both enabling and disturbing sides of that. Longfellow’s “Poets and Poetry of Europe”įor our Fall 2013 meeting, we focused on poems that may or may not comport with our contemporary definition of the dramatic monologue, asking: Does this genre exist? How do we know it when we see it? When was the dramatic monologue recognized as such, and what are its near cousins, body doubles or evil twins? How does the history of this poetic genre change when viewed through a transatlantic lens? In the morning session, members of the group each made short presentations on some aspect of the reading, and these ranged in topic from the role of gender in Ada Isaacs Menken, Sarah Piatt, and Frances Harper’s poems to the transatlantic influence of the Brownings to the issue of how slavery, in particular, is taken up by the genre.Historical Poetics in Glasgow and Warwick (Postponed).To say that the poem is a monologue means that these are the words of one solitary speaker with no dialogue coming from any other characters. These poems are dramatic in the sense that they have a theatrical quality that is, the poem is meant to be read to an audience. Approaching Poems: Historical Poetics 1895/2018 at Colby College Dramatic monologue refers to a type of poetry.
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