Creativity studies and Shakespeare at the urban community college

Abstract

In Act V of Cymbeline, Posthumus utters these lines as he awakens to find a tablet placed on his chest, not by a human prankster, but by Jupiter, a superhero among gods. It is a miracle, a thing amazing, anda thing completely incomprehensible to him. Although its value is clear (Posthumus has been promised that the writings on the god-endorsed tablet will predict his future happiness), its meaning is not. And thus, Posthumus feels vulnerable, frustrated, and afraid, staring at a locked door to understanding he desperately wants open, but for which he is not certain to possess the key.