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        <title><![CDATA[Posthumus secretly married a friend from childhood, Imogen. However...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Posthumus secretly married a friend from childhood, Imogen. However Posthumus was very poor and has no social position. And Imogen was the King's daughter. The King forced Posthumus out of the kingdom.
Iachimo bets Posthumus that he can tempt Imogen to commit adultery. Iachimo goes into her bed and steals her bracelet pretending he had sex with her, then tells Posthumus.  Posthumus makes his servant Pisanio murder Imogen. Pisanio warns her...]]></description>
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Who was Posthumus? Why was he so called? How did Imogen and Posthumus...]]></title>
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Who was Posthumus? Why was he so called? How did Imogen and Posthumus come to love each other?
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:49:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Imogen is the beautiful and wise daughter of Cymbeline the King of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Imogen is the beautiful and wise daughter of Cymbeline the King of Britain. She incurs the displeasure of her father because she marries the low born Posthumus:

"His daughter, [Imogen] and the heir of's kingdom, whomHe purposed to his wife's sole son--a widowThat late he married--hath referr'd herselfUnto a poor but worthy gentleman[Posthumus]: she's wedded;Her husband banish'd; she imprison'd: allIs outward sorrow; though I think the kingBe...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 22:03:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who was Imogen? What made her cruel step-mother wish her to marry her son?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who was Imogen? What made her cruel step-mother wish her to marry her son?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 21:00:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In a word, no! John Barton (in his book &quot;Playing Shakespeare&quot;)...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In a word, no! John Barton (in his book &quot;Playing Shakespeare&quot;) talks about original pronunciation, and I've put a link below to an audio excerpt which gives you an idea of how scholars think that actors in Shakespeare's day might have spoken. But it is all theoretical: obviously, Shakespeare lived long before the age of the tape recorder. Cymbeline's character names, though tend to be fairly uniformly pronounced. I've put below what...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:41:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is there a record of how &quot;Cymbeline&quot;'s character names would...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is there a record of how &quot;Cymbeline&quot;'s character names would have been pronounced?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:23:01 PST</pubDate>
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