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  2. Cymbeline - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Imogen (Cymbeline) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of compositions by Constant Lambert - Wikipedia

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    Dirge from Cymbeline (William Shakespeare), tenor and baritone soli, male chorus, strings, 1940; FP 23 March 1947, BBC broadcast; dedicated to Patrick Hadley;

  5. Dirge - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Shakespeare's late romances - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Gordon Crosse - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. List of compositions by Thomas Arne - Wikipedia

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    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

  9. List of compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams - Wikipedia

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    "Dirge for Fidele", duet (1895), setting text by Shakespeare from Cymbeline, published 1922 "Rondel", song (1896), setting text by Swinburne