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299 is filled with dramatic irony: “I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping. / My dearest wife was like this maid, and su ...
WHAT IS THE CITY BUT THE PEOPLE? CORIOLANUS (1608) ...
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302 I n Rome, a mob of plebeians gather to discuss with each other their grievances with the patricians, who they believe are ho ...
303 Coriolanus is outraged that he must appear before the people once more, and cannot contain his disdain. He gladly leaves the ...
304 C oriolanus is a play about power, politics, personality, and the fraught relationship between Rome’s plebeians and its prou ...
305 of grain-hoarding by the patricians. Coriolanus, however, has no talent as, or desire to be, a political spin- doctor; as Me ...
306 also proves a dangerous force, threatening to turn their fury on their own tribunes by the close. Bad politician Diplomacy i ...
307 speaks distances him from the citizens, until he seems to tower above them, delivering his words of condemnation as if they ...
THOU METST WITH THINGS DYING I WITH THINGS NEW-BORN THE WINTER’S TALE (1609–1610) ...
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310 P olixenes, King of Bohemia, has been staying with his boyhood friend Leontes, King of Sicily. When his pregnant wife, Hermi ...
311 Leontes puts Hermione on trial. When the oracle’s words proclaim Hermione innocent, Leontes declares the oracle false. Then ...
312 T he Winter’s Tale combines the pastoral humor and romance of As You Like It with the dark power of Othello. Yet the play is ...
313 subtly different from the other tragic plays. In the longer tragedies, the extremity of suffering in the protagonist’s self- ...
314 now 16 and a shepherdess, is courted by Polixenes’s son Florizel at a sheep-shearing festival. Few plays experience such a d ...
315 Renaissance. The Leontes story is a dark, Greek-style tragedy set in the classical Mediterranean. Perdita and Florizel’s sto ...
HANG THERE LIKE FRUIT MY SOUL TILL THE TREE DIE CYMBELINE (1610 –1611) ...
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318 K ing of Britain, Cymbeline banishes Posthumus, his adopted son, who has married his daughter Innogen. Cymbeline’s queen wan ...
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