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Cymbeline: ‘A Strain of Rareness’

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Stunned by the sight of Paulina’s remarkable ‘statue’, Leontes discovers that

No settled senses of the world can match The pleasure of that madness.

(The Winter’s Tale, v. iii. 72–3)

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Notes

  1. Norman Rabkin, Shakespeare and The Common Understanding (New York: Macmillan, 1967) p. 211.

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© 1982 David Scott Kastan

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Kastan, D.S. (1982). Cymbeline: ‘A Strain of Rareness’. In: Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06145-7_7

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