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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 ...
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 ...
Dirge from Cymbeline (William Shakespeare), tenor and baritone soli, male chorus, strings, 1940; FP 23 March 1947, BBC broadcast; dedicated to Patrick Hadley;
A dirge (Latin: dirige, ... Among the latter cases is the "Dirge for Fidele", a portion of William Shakespeare's play Cymbeline that was later set to music by ...
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 ...
With Dirge from Cymbeline for baritone and harp, written in 2007 for the NMC Songbook, Crosse resumed active composition. The Dirge was followed by a Trio for oboe, violin and cello (Rhyming with Everything) and a "Fantasia" for flute/recorder, harp and strings. Then came a stream of new works, both large scale and small.
Cymbeline: incidental music for a play: 8 November 1744, London, Little Theatre: Theophilus Cibber, after Shakespeare. Text by William Collins. Only the dirge still exists. 1745: The Temple of Dullness: burlesque opera: 3 acts: 17 January 1745, London, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane: Colley Cibber, after interludes in Lewis Theobald's The Happy Captive
"Dirge for Fidele", duet (1895), setting text by Shakespeare from Cymbeline, published 1922 "Rondel", song (1896), setting text by Swinburne