[Footnote 6:  The soliloquy is often not only slovenly, but a gratuitous and unnecessary slovenliness.  In Les Corbeaux, by Henry Becque, produced in 1889, there occur two soliloquies—­one by Teissier (Act ii, Scene 3), the other by Madame de Saint-Genis (Act in, Scene 10)—­either or both of which could be omitted without leaving any sensible gap.  The latter is wholly superfluous, the former conveys some information which might have been taken for granted, and could, in any case, have been conveyed without difficulty in some other way.  Yet Becque was, in his day, regarded as a quite advanced technician.]