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THIS IS NOT A SOLILOQUY!
Why is this in Soliloquies on the Hamlet page under "A series on Shakespeare's Hamlet"? This isn't a soliloquy and I'm almost certain that few literary scholars out there would brand it so. In summary: important?, maybe, soliloquy?, no.


 * Wow! Calm down a bit there. Just for the record, even though you're probably right, all caps is not really recommended on talk pages. It looks like you're really mad and yelling. Usually best to just calmly point the problem out. The world isn't going to end. Wrad 00:44, 22 September 2007 (UTC)


 * In fact, to be absolutely, Holofernes-ly precise about it, none of the speeches listed in the template are soliloquies, since Ophelia at least is on stage for To be or not to be. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DionysosProteus (talk • contribs) 21:51, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I myself have acted Shakespeare, and will set the record straight: a soliloquy is a speech given to the audience, to noone in particular, or when the character is speaking only to himself or believes he is only speaking to himself (thus, To be is indeed a soliloquy). A monoloque' is a long speech given to another character''. Since Hamlet is speaking to one of the players here, this is a monologue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.216.173.180 (talk) 01:30, 25 February 2010 (UTC)