Amorous Black
What is the term for the speech of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet that goes ...?
Gallop quickly, you fiery-footed horses, Towards Phoebus Housing. Such Wagoner and bring cloudy night immediately. Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night, eyes that runaways' May wink, and Romeo Leap to these arms, untalked and invisible. Lovers can see to do their amorous rites by their own beauties, or, if love is blind, it is more consistent with the night. Come, civil night, Thou sober suited matron, all in black, And learn me how to lose a game played to win a pair of stainless Maidenhood. My Hood unmanned blood bating in my cheeks, with the strange love your black coat, until, to grow bold, Think true love acted simple modesty. Come, night. Come, Romeo. Come, thou day in night Lie to you on the wings of night Whiter than new snow on the back of a crow .... Act 3 scene2 Please help!
This is called a monologue. Took apart - Soli-mind [alone], and Loquy [Word] - this means "words alone" and how spoken at home alone. Which happens a lot in Shakespeare. In modern times, films are sometimes the voice of a character speaking while things are under way to reveal what he is thinking or what he wants the public to know, and this is called "voice over". It is just the same.
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