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- Dramatic Monologue: An Introduction - A hypertext-annotated introduction to dramatic monologue.
- The Dramatic Monologue - A brief description and definition of dramatic monologue, with an example and links to related online material.
- August Strindberg: Monologues - Includes 17 dramatic monologues translated into English from Strindberg's plays.
- Wright, Kirby - Several poems by the author, including "Aloha, Lili'uokalani," a poem dedicated to Hawaii's last reigning monarch, which won the Robert Browning Award for Dramatic Monologue.
- Brooklyn Publishers - Theatre scripts and dramatic monologues. Includes overview of products and pricing. Based in Odessa, Texas.
Wikipedia Articles
- Dramatic monologue - A dramatic monologue is a type of poem, developed during the Victorian period, in which a character in fiction or in history delivers a speech explaining his or her feelings, actions, or motives. The monologue is usually directed toward a silent audience, with the speaker's words influenced by a ...
- My Last Duchess - "My Last Duchess" is a poem by Robert Browning, frequently anthologized as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's Dramatic Lyrics.
- Johannes Agricola in Meditation - "Johannes Agricola in Meditation" (1836) is an early dramatic monologue by Robert Browning. The poem was first published in the Monthly Repository; later, it appeared in Dramatic Lyrics (1842) paired with Porphyria's Lover under the title "Madhouse Cells.
- Fra Lippo Lippi (poem) - Fra Lippo Lippi is an 1855 dramatic monologue written by the Victorian poet Robert Browning. Throughout this poem, Browning depicts a 15th century real-life painter, Filippo Lippi, who faces the conflict of a religious life committed to the Church or a life of leisure.
- In the Workhouse - Christmas Day - In the Workhouse - Christmas Day, better known by its first line It is Christmas Day in the workhouse is a dramatic monologue published by George Robert Sims in 1879. It is a criticism of the harsh conditions in workhouses under the 19th-century Poor Law.