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Cloten

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Cloten
spurned but persistent lover of Imogen. [Br. Lit.: Cymbeline]


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Nancy Grace finally drove somebody to suicide, and Anna Nicole Smith forged a long-overdue bond between herself and the literate world when she woke up in her hospital room and found the dead body of her son: The same thing happens in Cymbeline when Imogen wakes up to find the decapitated body of Cloten in bed beside her.
One might suppose, in a play written about half a dozen years into James's reign, that Cymbeline himself would bear some relation to James, but King proposes, also, that the pretensions of James find a counterpart in the swagger of Cloten.
Cloten, the man who finally gives Iola a job, states, "'in dealing with Southern prejudice against the negro, we Northerners could do it with better grace if we divested ourselves of our own.
 
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