To Be or Not to Be Corrected
The article about how people talk to themselves (“Those One-Way Conversations,” Sept. 8) is incorrect in suggesting Hamlet asks Yorick’s skull his famous “To be or not to be . . . “
The speech with Yorick’s skull is in Act V and includes comments to Horatio--it is not talking to oneself.
“To be or not to be” is a soliloquy in Act III. Soliloquy is a speech delivered by a solitary character to the audience and is a form of talking to oneself, which invites the audience into a character’s internal conflicts or strategies.
SUSAN MASON
Theatre Arts and Dance
Cal State Los Angeles
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