Essays, Mainly Shakespearean
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780521032797
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; Literary Criticism; Plays / Drama; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Shakespeare; Drama / Shakespeare; Drama-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Shakespeare, William, --1564-1616--Criticism; Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: In the second act of Cymbeline, Jachimo, emerging stealthily into Imogen's bedchamber, suddenly remembers a fellow-countryman : 'Our Tarquin', who even thus, 'Did softly press the rushes, ere he waken'd / The chastity he wounded' (11.2.12-14).