Dramatic Monologue

This refreshingly clear guide provides students with a compact introduction to this key topic in literary studies. Although most often associated with Victorian poets such as Browning, dramatic monologue has a long literary and cultural history. DramaticMonologue: *unravels the history of the genre, from the poems of Donne, to today's stand-up comic routines *presents a history of definitions of the term *explores issues at play in our understanding of the genre, such as subjectivity, gender and politics.

Glennis Byron is a Reader in English Studies at the University of Stirling.