"In the church scene in the [Shakespeare's] Much Ado About Nothing, Claudio rejects the supposedly evil hero:But fare thee well, most foul, most fair! Farewell, Though pure impiety and impious purity! While there is actual Oxymoron in the second of these lines, we have, in the first, not an actual oxymoron but what may be called an expanded oxymoron."
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Kenneth Muir in: .Shakespeare Survey, Volume 19, Cambridge University Press, 28 November 2002, p. 25.
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