SOURCE: "Cymbeline," in The Poetics of Jacobean Drama, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981, pp. 103-35.
In the following essay, Freer contends that the motives, self-regard, and development of the three main characters—Imogen, Iachimo, and Posthumus—can be traced through the imagery and syntax of their speeches.
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