This article reflects on soliloquies in the dramatic plays of William Shakespeare, in particular in Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear, and confronts them with the great Augus-tinian tradition as well as theories formulated later, e.g. in the 18th century (A.A. Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury). An important point of reference is also found in contemporary Polish studies (by J. Płuciennik, and E. Kasperski, among others) as well as conceptions presented in books, dictionaries and encyclopaedias written in languages other than Pol-ish (by P. Pavis, C.H. Holman, W. Harmon, J.A. Cuddon, S. Chatman, and others). This article argues that the scholars’ findings regarding a number of pivotal aspects are not always definitive.
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