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▪ I. monologue, n.|ˈmɒnəlɒg|
[a. F. monologue, ‘one that loues to heare himselfe talke; or talkes very much about very little’ (Cotgr.), ad. Gr. µονόλογος speaking alone, f. µόνο-ς mono- + -λογος speaker, speaking. See -logue.]
†1. One who does all the talking. Obs.—0
1625[see monologian].
2. a. ‘A scene in which a person of the drama speaks by himself’ (J.); contrasted with chorus and dialogue. Also, in modern use, a dramatic composition for a single performer; a kind of dramatic entertainment performed throughout by one person.
1668Dryden Ess. Dram. Poesy (Ker) I. 78, I can show..in Catiline and Sejanus sometimes thirty or forty lines [of rhyme together], I mean besides the Chorus, or the monologues. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Monologue, a Dramatick Scene, where only one Actor speaks. 1739Cibber Apol. (1756) II. 164 The monologues and pageants drawn from place to place on wheels answer exactly to the cart of Thespis. 1845E. Holmes Mozart 200 The opera began with a monologue. 1872Liddon Elem. Relig. iv. 132 The true sense of the monologue in Hamlet may be thus summed up. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect II. 254 It was in monologues that he [Mathews] surpassed all competitors.
transf.1849Lytton Caxtons vi. i, Life is a drama, not a monologue.
b. In generalized sense: Literary composition of this nature.
1668Dryden Ess. Dram. Poesy (Ker) I. 50 He also gives you an account of himself..in monologue; to which unnatural way of narration Terence is subject in all his plays.
c. A poem, or other non-dramatic composition, in the form of a soliloquy. Used spec. of Old English verse.
1866Athenæum 3 Feb. 175/1 Mr. Robert Buchanan's new volume of poems, ‘London Idyls’, will consist principally of monologues. 1902W. W. Lawrence in Jrnl. Eng. & Gmc. Philol. IV. 462 Ebert expressed the opinion that the Seafarer should be interpreted as a monologue from beginning to end. 1905E. Rickert in Mod. Philol. II. 372 They are specimens of the giedd or short monologue arising from a dramatic situation, such as occurs frequently in Beowulf. 1935A. C. Bartlett Larger Rhet. Patterns Anglo-Saxon Poetry 106 Monologue and duologue, direct and indirect discourse, all are undramatic. 1943B. F. Huppé in Jrnl. Eng. & Gmc. Philol. XLII. 529 The basic outline [of the Wanderer] has already been set, with the two contrasting and complementary pagan monologues, framed and bound together by the expository Christian introduction, conclusion and ‘bridge passage’.
3. A long speech or harangue delivered by one person who is in company or conversation with others; talk or discourse of the nature of a soliloquy.
1859Helps Friends in C. Ser. ii. II. v. 115 Notice the self-contained talker, whose talk is a monologue. 1873Black Pr. Thule iii, He was pleasing himself with a series of monologues, interrupted only by his cigar. 1905A. C. Benson Upton Lett. (1906) 310 He will plunge into a fiery monologue about his ambitions.
▪ II. ˈmonologue, v.
[f. prec.]
intr. To monologize. Hence ˈmonologuing vbl. n.
1834Tait's Mag. I. 367/1 ‘What, the rectory of ―, if I'll change my coat?’ monologues the vicar. 1863Not an Angel I. 140 Miss Mary..monologued the while, after her manner. 1892Blackw. Mag. Aug. 205 Holmes..goes on with his monologuing—if we may coin a word. 1894G. Moore Esther Waters 41 Feeling that he had secured an appreciative listener, he continued to monologue regarding the wealth and rank his family had formerly held. |