Deseret Evening News | 1906-12-15 | Page 59 | Obsolete Stage Soliloquy

OBSOLETE STAGE SOLILOQUY Nowadays playwrights arc aro to II a better Wt wity for tor n a character to explaIn hi huls designs than to stand him alone out on the tho stage so that he can tell time tho spectators what lie he its Is going to tie dl This Thill seems It a little too easy to tot bo quite worth while amid aud the tho soliloquy which mer I transmits Information to the can bl be anI with tilt m Dut B a soliloquy In iii which 0 a character fI boldly of his most secret stands on I a higher pIn no It lets u a tortured hero unpack hits hIs heart It opens a 1 window Into his hili soul aunt It i givs time tho spectator 1 it pleasure runt not to bo be hall hail otherwise It us to listen to the of at it L with himself as aM though I we not mint what lie he is III saying 11 Prof Braille line hns In hula ot of ShakespeArean ll It will ho he agreed that III listening to a I soliloquy we wc ought never to feel teel that we are ho be lug ITo Ho d clurs thAt II in tills respect as lum In others or of soliloquies arE pieces but ho admits that hunt in III time the purpose of nt giving lies hare lIarI in one or two the actor Ictor open I hy speaks to the tho audience And Mo 10 here lIere Is IS as to this reproof liS as The fhe tact Is they canto cume to write for tal limo tho then theater they tIlY the tho soliloquy all an accepted it IL laborsaving that the they took over our without IL a thought on tho thiO It This It if declared would he ba that thuat tIme the soliloquy Is a meAn ot of expos log to time tho spectators the tho actual thoughts thought ot of II a when hue he Is isalone alone oil the flue stat stage In n other dither words aim actor bo be to tn tobe be bC thinking Dut so eIther Shakespeare o 0 care caro fOl om thc principle involve that each of them unhesitatingly sets before us n a char actor soliloquizing lad yet by br other Brand Brander or er Mattheas in