Speaking aside
That aside talk or A-part of speech is a stylistic device of theater . A stage character says something that the dialogue partner does not notice, but the audience does. Something that is spoken aside can be improvised ( extempore ) or set in the text.
The stylistic device already appears in Plautus , for example in his comedy Aulularia , the model for Molière's The Miser . Aside, comments are mostly spoken about what is happening on the stage. In comedies and antics , the instructions “aside”, “for oneself” or “à part” mark the dialogue parts spoken aside. Often these are insults that the insulted should not hear. In the gestural vocabulary of the Commedia dell'arte , the hand held out suggests speaking aside. The instruction “loud” in the text signals the end of speaking aside.
The naturalism of the late 19th century declared the aside to be a bad habit and fought it with the idea of a fourth wall facing the audience. Speaking aside has re-established itself in many forms in the theater of the 20th century.
In literature, the inner monologue corresponds to the simultaneous "for oneself" and "for everyone" of speaking aside .
See also
literature
- Hans J. Wulff: Constellations, Contracts and Trust Pragmatic Foundations of Dramaturgy, in: montage / av 10/2/2001, pp. 131–154.