SOURCE: “Miranda's Guarded Speech: Porter and the Problem of Truth-Telling,” in Philological Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 2, Spring, 1987, pp. 259–78.
In the following essay, Stout examines the reticence of the central character, Miranda, and perceives it as evidence of her wisdom.
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