soliloquy• The second actor, the accused, immediately begins a soliloquy of defence.• Terentia goes offstage, and in a soliloquy, Dycarbas explains his actions.• We should hope that Hughes, having taken his soliloquy, will one day transcribe more of these asides.• My own soliloquy, my own trial came with that offer.• One way of doing this is to use the soliloquy or aside, such flexibleresources on the Elizabethan stage.• But Pauline Daniels has created a whole new interpretation of the uproarioussoliloquy.
Originsoliloquy
(1300-1400)Late Latinsoliloquium, from Latinsolus ( → SOLE1) + loqui“to speak”