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The near universality of twins in both reality and mythology discussed in the opening chapter makes it unsurprising that twins and twinship appear in a wide variety of cultural forms and representations. Artistic representations of twinship have viewed twins as the ideal vehicle for the exploration of the nature of identity, whether personal, social or moral. This chapter discusses the cultural delineation of twinship in a variety of media.
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste produced in 1977, has Michael York and the now deceased Marty Feldman as identical twins. (John Lyttle, ‘Twin Flics: the Naked Truth’, The Independent, 9 July 1993, p. 19).
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Stewart, E.A. (2003). Duality and Identity: Twins in Media. In: Exploring Twins. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403914224_3
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