Cymbeline
The Tragedy of Cymbeline is a play by William Shakespeare. It is based on a story in a book called Holinshed's Chronicles by Raphael Holinshed. Shakespeare also used History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth about the real-life British king Cunobelinus. Shakespeare also used a story in a book by Giovanni Boccaccio called Decameron for some details.[1][2] The first known performance was in April 1611. It was first printed in 1623 in the First Folio, a collection of all of Shakespeare's plays.
Cymbeline Media
Posthumus and Imogen by John Faed.
Watercolour of Posthumus and Imogen by Henry Justice Ford.
The first page of Cymbeline from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623.
Dame Ellen Terry as Imogen.
Image of Thomas D'Urfey, who adapted Shakespeare's Cymbeline in 1682.
A portrait of Franz Schubert, who composed a lied for the song "Hark, hark! the lark."
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References
- ↑ F. D. Hoeniger, "Two Notes on Cymbeline," Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter, 1957), p. 133,
- ↑ Nosworthy, J. M. (1955) Preface in Cymbeline: Second Series p.xxiv.
Other websites
- Cymbeline Archived 2018-09-21 at the Wayback Machine – searchable, indexed e-text
- Cymbeline Archived 2008-07-24 at the Wayback Machine – Full text at M.I.T.
- Cymbeline Archived 2008-07-08 at the Wayback Machine – Scene-indexed play
- Cymbeline – HTML version.
- Cymbeline – Scene-indexed and searchable version of the text.
- Cymbeline Archived 2004-08-04 at Archive.today – plain text from Project Gutenberg
- Cymbeline – different plain text edition
