SOURCE: “The Marriage Topos in Cymbeline: Shakespeare's Variations on a Classical Theme,” in English Literary Renaissance, Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter, 1989, pp. 94-117.
In the following essay, Simonds studies Shakespeare's variations on the familiar Renaissance marriage theme in Cymbeline, and examines the significance of those variations in terms of contemporary politics and Protestant theology.
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