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... Cymbeline is , in my opinion , formed on Boccace's novel ( Day 2 , Nov. 9. ) and Shak- speare has taken a circumstance from it , that is not mentioned in the other tale . See Act II . sc . ii . It appears from the pre- face to the old ...
... Cymbeline is , in my opinion , formed on Boccace's novel ( Day 2 , Nov. 9. ) and Shak- speare has taken a circumstance from it , that is not mentioned in the other tale . See Act II . sc . ii . It appears from the pre- face to the old ...
Page 304
... Cymbeline suggests “a structural anxiety at the heart of the early modern celebration of conjugal love.” Boling, Ronald J. “Anglo-Welsh Relations in Cymbeline.” Shakespeare Quarterly 51 (2000): 33–66. There are three major settings in ...
... Cymbeline suggests “a structural anxiety at the heart of the early modern celebration of conjugal love.” Boling, Ronald J. “Anglo-Welsh Relations in Cymbeline.” Shakespeare Quarterly 51 (2000): 33–66. There are three major settings in ...
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Shakespeares Universalism | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 21 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 28 |
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