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Monologue

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Mónologue. n.s. [μονος and λόγος; monologue, Fr.] A scene in which a person of the drama speaks by himself; a soliloquy.

He gives you an account of himself, and of his returning from the country, in monologue; to which unnatural way of narration Terence is subject in all his plays. Dryden.

Sources: Dryden, John (788)

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