Alone on stage after his servant goes out, Macbeth says: "Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee." Which convention is this?

Claudius greets him in open court as "my cousin Hamlet, and my son." Hamlet answers so that only the audience hears: "A little more than kin, and less than kind." Which convention is this?

Standing over Caesar's body before the listening Roman crowd, Antony begins: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; / I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." Which convention is this?

Just after the murder in Macbeth, the script prints the bracketed line [Knocking within.] between two speeches. Which convention is this?

Lucius leaves, and Brutus, alone in his orchard at night, says: "It must be by his death: and for my part, / I know no personal cause to spurn at him, / But for the general." Which convention is this?

Banquo, Ross and Angus stand beside him, but only the audience hears Macbeth say: "Two truths are told, / As happy prologues to the swelling act / Of the imperial theme." Which convention is this?

A character is the only person on stage. She looks out and tells the audience, over thirty lines, exactly what she is afraid of. Which convention is this?

Three characters are arguing on stage. One turns away and gives the audience two lines about what he really wants. The other two do not hear him. Which convention is this?

A general stands in front of his soldiers and speaks for forty lines without interruption. Every soldier on stage hears every word. Which convention is this?

A soliloquy and a monologue can both run for pages without interruption. Which question actually separates them?

Left by himself, Hamlet says: "Now I am alone. / O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!" Who is the speech meant for, and what is it called?

Macbeth says "This is a sorry sight," and the script then prints [Looking on his hands.] What does that bracketed line give the actor?

In the Queen's room, Hamlet's script prints [Polonius goes behind the arras.] just before Hamlet enters. What does that line give a reader?

A Doll's House opens with a description of the Helmers' room that ends: "The floors are carpeted, and a fire burns in the stove. It is winter." What does that description give a reader?

In The Importance of Being Earnest, Algernon's next speech follows the bracket [Inspects them, takes two, and sits down on the sofa.] What does the bracket tell the actor?

In Act 3, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet, the script prints the bracketed line [They fight; Tybalt falls.] between two speeches. What does that line give a reader?

The Prologue of Romeo and Juliet tells the audience that "a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life" before Act 1 begins. What does that create in the scenes that follow?

In the tomb Romeo says of Juliet: "Death that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty." The audience has watched Friar Laurence give her a sleeping potion. What is this?

Arriving at Inverness, Duncan says "This castle hath a pleasant seat" and trusts Macbeth completely. The audience has already heard Macbeth's asides. What does the audience know that Duncan does not?

Caesar tells the men who have come to escort him: "Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me; / And we, like friends, will straightway go together." What does the audience know that Caesar does not?