Beckerman, Bernard. Shakespeare at the Globe: 1599-1609. London: Collier Books, 1962.

Perhaps all that the evidence can demonstrate is that no special area of the stage seems either reserved for or barred to the soliloquy and that the actor took the stage as the temper of the scene prompted. In all likelihood the actor himself decided how and where he played the soliloquy. 185

In none of the Globe plays is there any certain indication that the audience was directly addressed in the soliloquy. 186