Tuesday, October 23, 2007

How is the fragile separation between reality and perception within Cymbeline enacted on and through physical bodies? How do bodies act both as reliable markers of "truth" and sites over/through which one can enact deception?

What function does Philarmonus serve within the play? Especially in the final scene -- wherein everyone seems to have a piece of the narrative puzzle to contribute -- what effect does a soothsayer tying all the strands together have?

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