I love dramatic monologues so I've been enjoying this thread. A question: would Louis Simpson be another good exemplar for them? I don't have his books onhand, but reading the inaugural issue of New Walk, and Grevel Lindop's review of Simpson there, reminded me of him. Lindop mentions Simpson's fictional first-person narratives. And Simpson's language has that mix of formal and conversational that people have been mentioning here. Anyway, I thought I'd mention him in case it's a useful link.
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