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Imogen in her bedchamber in Act II, scene ii, when Iachimo witnesses the mole under her breast. Painting by Wilhelm Ferdinand Souchon, 1872. Cymbeline (/ ˈ s ɪ m b ɪ l iː n /), also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain (c. 10–14 AD) [a] and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain ...
The late romances, often simply called the romances, are a grouping of William Shakespeare's last plays, comprising Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Cymbeline; The Winter's Tale; and The Tempest. The Two Noble Kinsmen , of which Shakespeare was co-author, is sometimes also included in the grouping.
Cymbeline (also known as Anarchy) is a 2014 American crime thriller film written, produced, and directed by Michael Almereyda, based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. The film stars Ethan Hawke , Ed Harris , Milla Jovovich , John Leguizamo , and Dakota Johnson .
Shakespeare probably took the name from the Matter of Britain character Innogen as found in Holinshed's Chronicles (1577), and had used the name once before for a non-speaking 'ghost character' in early editions of Much Ado About Nothing (1600), as the wife of the character Leonato (Imogen in Cymbeline is paired with a character with the ...
Guiderius is a character in William Shakespeare's play Cymbeline. He and his brother Arvirargus had been kidnapped in childhood by Belarius, a nobleman wrongly banished by Cymbeline, and brought up in secret in Wales, but are reunited with their father and sister Imogen in time for the Roman invasion. [3]
Cymbeline, originally written in English by William Shakespeare, is a play in the Juba Arabic language adapted and staged by the South Sudan Theatre Company under the direction of Joseph Abuk and Derik Uya Alfred, and which premiered at the Globe in London in 2012.
Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, vols I and II (1970), ISBN 978-0-517-26825-4. Gramercy Books. Gramercy Books. Nearly 800 pages long plus an index, the work was originally published in two volumes; Greek, Roman and Italian in the first and 'The English Plays' in the second.
Geoffrey's story was incorporated into Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles in 1577, [22] where it was found by William Shakespeare and used as the basis of his romance, Cymbeline. Beyond the name, there is virtually nothing in common between Cymbeline's figure and the historical Cunobelinus.