Palamon

On his deathbed he called Palamon and Emilia to his side, and bade farewell to his heart's queen, commending Palamon to her,

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"Palamon", and tales with his Tales, descriptive and fanciful poems with those of the same kind in our own poet.

Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

Arkangel have made a very decent fist of it, especially with Jonathan Firth as Palamon and Sarah-Jane Holm as the jailer's daughter (and I've been listening to her father as Frodo Baggins too).

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And I haven't mentioned the unfortunate jailer's daughter who falls in love with Palamon, engineers his escape, goes mad with guilt, and eventually goes off with the anonymous Athenian bloke who was always in love with her.

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The two noble kinsmen of the title are Palamon and Arcite, kin of the ruler of Thebes, taken as prisoners of war to Athens where they both fall in love with the Duke's sister.

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Arcite is paroled, Palamon escapes, and they are duelling to the death for the fair Emilia when the Duke discovers them and makes them go away for a while in order to come back and fight properly.

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And I haven't mentioned the deep manly love that Palamon and Arcite profess for one another when they are not competing to win Emilia, nor Emilia's early professed deep womanly love for the otherwise unmentioned Flavinia (though if I was directing this I would make her the jailer's daughter).

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Her doctor advises him to have sex with her even though she thinks he is Palamon, but only if it will make her feel better.

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Arcite wins the combat, but just as Palamon and his team-mates are about to be executed, Arcite falls off his horse and dies, so Palamon gets to marry Emilia and everyone (except Arcite) lives happily ever after.

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U. K.-based Palamon hired Anthony Gardner, formerly an executive director of European leveraged finance at Bank of America, as director of structured finance in November, responsible for the firm's banking relationships.

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