Class and Society in ShakespeareThe Continuum Shakespeare Dictionaries provide authoritative yet accessible guides to the principal subject-areas covered by the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. The dictionaries provide readers with a comprehensive guide to the topic under discussion, its occurrence and significance in Shakespeare's works, and its contemporary meanings. Entries range from a few lines in length to mini-essays, providing the opportunity to explore an important literary or historical concept or idea in depth. Entries include: apothecary, bear-baiting, Caesar, degree, gentry, Henry V, kingdom, London, masque, nobility, plague, society, treason, usury, whore and youth. They follow an easy to use three-part structure: a general introduction to the term or topic; a survey of its significance and use in Shakespeare's plays and a guide to further reading. |
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... Cymbeline a curious nonentity . As the man at the apex of the social pyramid , he is exactly the person who should ... Cymbeline's Brit- ain onto that of James I after his first few years in power and to take the play as a figurative ...
... Cymbeline a curious nonentity . As the man at the apex of the social pyramid , he is exactly the person who should ... Cymbeline's Brit- ain onto that of James I after his first few years in power and to take the play as a figurative ...
Page 455
... Cymbeline . Euriphile , Thou wast their nurse ; they took thee for their mother ' ( CYM 3.3.103-4 ) says Belarius of Cymbeline's two sons . Just before he accuses Hermione of adultery with Polixenes , Leontes insults her by saying that ...
... Cymbeline . Euriphile , Thou wast their nurse ; they took thee for their mother ' ( CYM 3.3.103-4 ) says Belarius of Cymbeline's two sons . Just before he accuses Hermione of adultery with Polixenes , Leontes insults her by saying that ...
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... Cymbeline provides a corollary : O Cymbeline , heaven and my conscience knows Thou didst unjustly banish me ; whereon , At three and two years old , I stole these babes , Thinking to bar thee of succession , as Thou reft'st me of my ...
... Cymbeline provides a corollary : O Cymbeline , heaven and my conscience knows Thou didst unjustly banish me ; whereon , At three and two years old , I stole these babes , Thinking to bar thee of succession , as Thou reft'st me of my ...
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