Titles of complete monologues are printed in _Italics_; authors of these in SMALL CAPITALS; subjects of lessons are printed in CAPITALS; ordinary topics in Roman.
Abrupt beginning, cause of Browning's obscurity, 81
ACTION, 172-195 importance at opening, 172-173 precedence of, 173 significance of, in a monologue, 174 in Italian in England, 174 in Mrs. Caudle, 174 in Up at a Villa, 174-175 in A Tale, 175-176 caused by change in thinking and feeling, 175-176 by struggle for idea, 176 in quotations, 177-178 transitions and, 178 pivotal, shows attention and politeness, 181-186 locations of objects, 182-183 monologue must not be declaimed, 183 descriptive and manifestative, 187-189 in Old Boggs' Slarnt, Day, 188 in Vagabonds, Trowbridge, 190-193 dangers of, 194 attitude, importance of, 195
ARGUMENT OF MONOLOGUE, 86-100 Illustrated by A Death in the Desert, 89 Illustrated by Bishop orders his Tomb, 91-94 (Poem, 285) Illustrated by _Memorabilia_, 160-162
Art, function of, 7 dramatic, important, 11 forms of, not invented, necessary, 11-12 Browning on, 40 indirect, 63 composed of few elements, 87-88 theme of, 110 social, 258
Attention, key to dramatic, 181 shown by pivotal action, 182-186
Bishop Blougram's Apology, listener in, 41-42
_Bishop orders his Tomb_, 285 listener in, 53 dramatic argument of, 91-94
_Bridge of Sighs_, =HOOD=, 209 metre of, 211
=BROWNING= _Patriot, The_, 3 _Woman's Last Word, A_, 6 _Confessions_, 7 _Youth and Art_, 21 _Incident of the French Camp_, 33 _Rabbi Ben Ezra_, 36 _Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister_, 58 _Up at a Villa--Down in the City_, 65 A Grammarian's Funeral, 72 At the Mermaid, 74 _My Last Duchess_, 96 _Lost Mistress_, 106 _Tray_, 143 _One Way of Love_, 150 _Italian in England_, 152 _Wanting is--What?_ 157 _Memorabilia_, 160 _A Tale_, 164 _In a Year_, 201 _Lost Leader_, 212 _Evelyn Hope_, 216 _Appearances_, 265 _Andrea del Sarto_, 265 _Muléykeh_, 272 _Count Gismond_, 275 _By the Fireside_, 277 _Pheidippides_, 281 _Prospice_, 284 _Bishop orders his Tomb_, 285 _Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis_, 288 _Abt Vogler_, 290 _Saul_, 293 Why not appreciated, 1-2 Invented monologue, 1-2 his art form, 7 dramatic, 9-10 compared with Leigh Hunt, 25-26 influence of, 48 compared with Tennyson, 52 compared with Shakespeare, 55-61 soliloquies are monologues, 58-61 obscurity of, 71-81 master of monologue, 131-132 grotesque, element in, 229 variety of his themes, 263-264