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Monologue. In theatre, a monologue (from Greek: μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience. Monologues are common across the ...
The Palooka. The Palooka is a 1937 one-act about an old has-been boxer. The characters are The Palooka (Galveston Joe), The Kid and The Trainer. The Kid is nervous about his first fight, and The Palooka relieves the Kid's anxiety by telling about the fictional life he wanted to lead after he retired as Galveston Joe.
Richard Kindersley 's sculpture The Seven Ages of Man in London. " All the world's a stage " is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare 's pastoral comedy As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII Line 139. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play and catalogues the seven stages ...
The Indus script, also known as the Harappan script and the Indus Valley Script, is a corpus of symbols produced by the Indus Valley Civilisation. Most inscriptions containing these symbols are extremely short, making it difficult to judge whether or not they constituted a writing system used to record a Harappan language, any of which are yet ...
A Midsummer Nights Dream - 1954 (Audiobook) Champagne Charlie - 1954. My Fair Lady (Original Cast) - 1956. Stanley Holloway's Concert Party - 1957 [20] Nonsense Verse Of Carroll And Lear - 1957 [21] Gobbledegook Songs - 1957 [22] The Concert Party -1958 [23] ' Ere's 'Olloway - 1958. Alice In Wonderland - 1958.
Preceded by. Goldfinger. Followed by. Thunderball. For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond, the eighth book to feature the character. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960.
"A Lady of Letters" is a dramatic monologue written by Alan Bennett in 1987 for television, as part of his Talking Heads series for the BBC. The series became very popular, moving onto BBC Radio, international theatre, becoming one of the best-selling audio book releases of all time and included as part of both the A-level and GCSE English syllabus. [1]
The Sinhala script is a Brahmi derivate and was thought to have been imported from Northern India around the 3rd century BCE. [ 5 ] It developed in a complex manner, partly independently but also strongly influenced by South Indian scripts at various stages, [ 6 ] manifestly influenced by the early Grantha script. [ 3 ]