Soliloquy, aside, direct address and the thrust stage relationship with audience

What this note covers

1. Elizabethan performance joined verbal complexity with an open audience relationship
2. Soliloquy stages thought as dramatic action
3. Aside creates a temporary channel of shared knowledge
4. Direct address acknowledges spectators as present partners
5. Thrust staging distributes focus and complicity
6. Worked Elizabethan transformation: public praise and private bargain
7. Worked soliloquy: a chief executive rehearses a privacy apology
8. Worked thrust-stage scene: the inheritance dinner overheard in fragments

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