What is aside mean in Shakespeare's time?

Answer 1

An aside is when a character says something out loud in the attempt of conveying his or her thoughts to the audience, with the supposition that other characters can not hear it. This can be used when a character wants to share what he or she is thinking, when describing a previous event, etc.

Answer 2

An aside is when a character speaks to the audience mid conversation and expresses their thoughts, The other characters don't hear it. A soliloquy is when a character recites a monologue of their thoughts secluded from the other characters.

Answer 3

The stage direction Aside tells the actor to address the audience directly, ignoring any other actors who may be on the stage. The convention is that the characters whom the other actors represent cannot hear what is said in an aside.

Answer 4

An aside is a remark directed at someone other than the one in conversation, in many cases this is the audience. It usually represents a thought or observation that would not be heard by the other characters.

In some situations, real and literary, the term sotto voce (lowered voice) serves the same purpose as an aside.

(The act of saying something "under one's breath" is even lower in volume, said so that no one else is supposed to hear.)

Answer 5

Same as it means now: to the side. Like in this quotation from Coriolanus: "Come, lay aside your stitchery; I must have you play the idle housewife with me this afternoon." Or this, from Love's Labour's Lost: "Walk aside the true folk, and let the traitors stay."

Of course, it had and still has a special meaning to actors. An aside is a line which is delivered, not to the other actors on the stage, but to the audience. Asides lost popularity and disappeared almost completely from scripts in the late 19th century because of what is called the "fourth wall convention", the convention that the actors behave as if they are unaware of the existence of the audience as if the stage was a box with a fourth wall between audience and actors which only the audience can see through. Some experimental kinds of theatre (and even some television and film scripts) in the later parts of the twentieth century have given rise to renewed interest in using asides from time to time.

Answer 6

something spoken to the audience, not heard by others onstage

Answer 7

People acting on stage like others cannot hear them

Answer 8

Aside from the fact that she's on a diet, she at chocolate.

Answer 9

The word aside is an adverb. It means to one side to be out of the way.

Answer 10

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