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Literary Imagination Advance Access published online on March 25, 2008
Literary Imagination, doi:10.1093/litimag/imn011
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"Falseness cannot come from thee": Marina as Character and Orator in Shakespeare's Pericles

Travis Curtright*

*Travis Curtright, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Literature, Ave Maria University.

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... rethorike and eloquence (as Plato sayeth) is an arte which quickeneth mens spirites at her pleasure, and her chiefest skill is, to knowe howe to move passions and affections throughly, which are as stoppes and sounds of the soule, that would be played upon with a fine fingered hande of a conning master.
Sir Thomas North, translation of Plutarch's Life of Pericles
                Prithee speak.
Falseness cannot come from thee, for thou look'st
Modest as Justice, and thou seem'st a palace
For the crowned Truth to dwell in. (Pericles, 5.1.110–3)


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A recent forum of Shakespeare Studies debated the question: "Is there character after theory?" Raphael Falco proposed the question because of what he called a "double standard" wherein "postmodern literary critics," who denied the prospect of "a coherent individual subject," continued to refer to Shakespeare's characters as if they were "persons."1 Falco suggested such a practice may . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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