What was the person called that was known as The Irving of the music halls was also famous for their speech presented by a single character, most often to express their mental thoughts aloud?
Monologue In theatre, a monologue (from Greek: μονόλογος , from μόνος "mónos", "alone, solitary" and λόγος "lógos", "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their mental thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience. Monologues are common across the range of dramatic media (plays, films, etc.), as well as in non-dramatic media such as poetry. Monologues share much in common with several other literary devices including soliloquies, apostrophes, and aside. There are, however, distinctions between each of these devices.
Wayland Maxfield Parrish Born in 1887, he is noted for writing a few books dealing with rhetoric titled "Reading Aloud", "Speaking in Public", "American Speeches", "The Teacher's Speech", and "Richard Whately's Elements of Rhetoric: Parts I and II". His most well-known are "Reading Aloud" and "American Speeches". He also wrote and contributed to various journal articles concerning speech and rhetoric. He graduated from Cornell’s prestigious linguistics program, he went on to teach at the University of Pittsburgh and then the University of Illinois.