The soliloquies in Shakespeares tragedies and the epiphanic context

Abstract

Shakespeare, no doubt, is a much too overworked subject and to try to say anything new newlineon Shakespeare involves a Herculean task. Yet the effort continues unabated to explore newlineand exploit new areas of Shakespearean criticism so as to decipher new meanings and newlinecontexts relevant to life and society at large. Consequently this study also, in keeping with newlinethe tradition of research proposes to take up the soliloquies of Shakespeare s tragedies newlinewith a view to looking at this genre from a new perspective. The study of The Soliloquies newlinein Shakespeare s tragedies and the Epiphanic Context, it is hoped, would go a long way newlinein unfolding complexities that tend to challenge our understanding of the tragedies newlinethemselves. It is my belief that the study will go on to elaborate the many uses of soliloquy newlinethat Shakespeare seems to make of, for the purpose of dramatic effect from engaging in newlineintricate emotional outpourings like love, hate, jealousy etc to revealing matters of grave newlinepolitical import. Although Shakespeare makes use of soliloquies as an instrument of newlinediscourse in almost all his plays it is in the tragedies that we find him putting them to their newlineeffective best. newline