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Cymbeline Quotes
325 words, approx. 1 pages
 Cymbeline is a play of uncertain date by Shakespeare , which could be described as a tragi-comedy, a romance, or a history-play. It is set in pre-Roman Britain. Contents 1 Act I 2 Act II 3 Act III 4 Act IV 5 Act V 6 External links // Act I His fortunes...




| Name: |
William Shakespeare | | Birth Date: |
April 23, 1564 | | Death Date: |
April 23, 1616 | | Place of Birth: |
Stratford-upon-Avon, England | | Place of Death: |
Stratford-upon-Avon, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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Biography of William Shakespeare
35385 words, approx. 118 pages
 "He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
30474 words, approx. 101.6 pages
 "He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
10254 words, approx. 34.2 pages
 William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditio...



Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Cymbeline
331 words, approx. 1 pages comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, one of his later plays, written in 1608–10 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from a careful transcript of an authorial manuscript incorporating a theatrical playbook that had included many...
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Cymbeline Information
3,061 words, approx. 10 pages
 The Tragedy of Cymbeline, King of Britain is a play by William Shakespeare. Critics often classify it—along with Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The Tempest, and The Winter's Tale—as a Late Romance; the style however is probably better described as...




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 Evening Standard - London
Carry on Cymbeline
11/23/2001: 342 words, approx. 1 pages CYMBELINE _ The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon CYMBELINE is one of the most curious of Shakespeare's plays, since it seems almost as if an aspiring young playwright had rummaged through the Bard's wastepaper basket and stolen bits of plot from Romeo and Juliet, The...
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 Shakespeare Bulletin
Cymbeline.(Theater review)
12/22/2007: 1,419 words, approx. 5 pages Cymbeline Presented by CheekbyJowl at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York. May 2-12, 2007. Directed by Declan Donnellan. Set by Nick Ormerod. Lighting by Judith Greenwood. Music by Catherine Jayes. Sound by Ross Chatfield. With Gwendoline Christie (Queen), Tom Hiddleston (Posthumous, Cloten),...
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 AP News
Lincoln Center untangles `Cymbeline'
12/3/2007: 648 words, approx. 2 pages "Cymbeline" is quite possibly Shakespeare's strangest creation.Not really a comedy, a tragedy or a historical drama, the play has bits of all three, which may be why directors like it. It's easier to impose their own vision on its unruly plot.And Mark Lamos, who directed...
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 AP Features
Broadway faces a gloomy Thanksgiving
11/19/2007: 528 words, approx. 2 pages Broadway faces a gloomy Thanksgiving after the collapse of talks between stagehands and theater producers with more than two dozen shows now canceled through the end of the lucrative holiday week.Negotiations broke down Sunday after a weekend of marathon meetings between Local 1 and the...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Leah S. Marcus
15,834 words, approx. 53 pages
 In the following excerpt, Marcus contends that a close reading of Cymbeline will support an interpretation of the play as a political allegory that is deeply reflective of contemporary Jacobean politics.
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Critical Essay by Coburn Freer
15,759 words, approx. 53 pages
 In the following essay, Freer contends that the motives, self-regard, and development of the three main characters—Imogen, Iachimo, and Posthumus—can be traced through the imagery and syntax of their speeches.
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Critical Essay by Peggy Muñoz Simonds
14,067 words, approx. 47 pages
 In the following essay, Simonds claims that negative assessments of Cymbeline are often the result of misunderstandings about the play's proper classification, and suggests that evaluated as a tragicomedy rather than a romance, the work is a masterpiece.


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