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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 ...
Cymbeline often offers two different directions for staging: grand and simple. In the spring of 1896, Henry Irving staged the play at the Lyceum Theatre , London with elaborate Celtic sets for Cymbeline's palace gardens and interior rooms, a Roman banqueting hall for Posthumus's visit to Rome, a handsomely decorated bedchamber for Imogen, and a ...
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's King Lear loosely follows the story detailed in the Chronicles. In the Chronicles , Leir's eldest daughters, Gonerilla and Regan , are married to the Dukes of Cornwall and Albany. After the love test Leir decrees only half of his kingdom is to be assigned to the dukes immediately, with the rest to be divided at his death.
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 ...
Synopsis I 1 Britain. The garden of Cymbeline's palace. 218 I 2 Britain. A public place. 32 I 3 Britain. A room in Cymbeline's palace. 48 I 4 Rome. A room in Pilario's house. 149 I 5 Britain. A room in Cymbeline's palace. 99 I 6 Britain. Another room in Cymbeline's palace. 240 II 1 Britain. Before Cymbeline's palace. 60 II 2 Britain.
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 Refinished (1937) is a play-fragment by George Bernard Shaw in which he writes a new final act to Shakespeare's play Cymbeline. The drama follows from Shaw's longstanding need to reimagine Shakespeare's work, epitomised by his play Caesar and Cleopatra and his late squib Shakes versus Shav .