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Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

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Author Biography

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 Information
3,061 words, approx. 10 pages
This article is about Shakespeare's play. For the mythical British king, see Cunobelinus . See also Cymbaline (disambiguation) . Imogen Discovered in the Cave of Belarius by George Dawe The Tragedy of Cymbeline, King of Britain is a play by William...


News and Journals
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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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Big Screen Bard: A Film Quiz
10/8/2007: 366 words, approx. 1 pages
Question 1 of 10:"Throne of Blood", a classic Japanese film about a murderous Samurai, is based on which play?a) Macbeth (1)b) Richard III (0)c) Hamlet (0)d) Othello (0)Question 2 of 10:Who recently directed an all-singing, all-dancing version of "Love's Labour's Lost"?a) Baz Luhrmann (0)b) Kenneth...
 


Criticism and Essays
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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Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

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