Shakespeare's Last Words
Abstract
A MAN'S LAST WORDS carry presumption of credibility not associated with utterances made earlier in life. William Shakespeare acknowledged this credibility in at least three of his plays. When the physician, Cornelius, told Cymbeline that the Queen had confessed that she loved him not, Cymbeline declared, ‘She alone knew this;/And, but she spoke it dying, I would not/Believe her lips in opening it.’
Citation
Bauer, H.C. (1974), "Shakespeare's Last Words", Library Review, Vol. 24 No. 6, pp. 255-261. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012604
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