Mimi Hunter

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Even though the Cinna scene is so short, then, it seems burdened with trying to say something about the role of the poet in contemporary political life. Even the poet as bystander is brought, resistantly, into politics. And in case we miss it, the play has another go at the same suggestion. It has a second poet, too – a figure called in modern editions with wonderful superfluity,
This Is Shakespeare
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