BROWNING
AND
THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE

NATURE AND INTERPRETATION OF AN
OVERLOOKED FORM OF LITERATURE

S. S. CURRY, Ph.D., Litt.D.
President of the School of Expression

BOSTON
EXPRESSION COMPANY
Pierce Building, Copley Square

Copyright, 1908
By S. S. Curry

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.

CONTENTS

Page
[Part I]
THE MONOLOGUE AS A DRAMATIC FORM
[I.]A New Literary Form[1]
[II.]The Speaker[12]
[III.]The Hearer[30]
[IV.]Place or Situation[64]
[V.]Time and Connection[78]
[VI.]Argument[86]
[VII.]The Monologue as a Form of Literature[100]
[VIII.]History of the Monologue[113]
[Part II]
DRAMATIC RENDERING OF THE MONOLOGUE
[IX.]Necessity of Oral Rendition[133]
[X.]Actions of Mind and Voice[147]
[XI.]Actions of Mind and Body[172]
[XII.]The Monologue and Metre[195]
[XIII.]Dialect[222]
[XIV.]Properties[230]
[XV.]Faults in Rendering a Monologue[241]
[XVI.]Importance of the Monologue[248]
[XVII.]Some Typical Monologues from Browning[265]
Index[305]