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Loading... Cymbeline (1609)by William Shakespeare
   No current Talk conversations about this book.  Harks | Dec 17, 2022 |  Definitely enjoyed it more than when I saw it performed but still not my favorite. *Going to add an extra star after thinking it over. (  ) Fortunesdearest | Oct 23, 2022 | Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford  rogamills | Oct 8, 2022 | This play is not greatly to my taste. But it does work on stage, and is a surviving work of the great writer. Imogen, the King's daughter is falsely accused of adultery, by the machinations of Iachimo, who creates an appearance of the deed. Imogen flees her father's court, but does recover her position by an unlikely series of events. the play did not give birth to the usual number of later clichés in language. (  ) DinadansFriend | Apr 5, 2022 | A Comedy in the sense that most of the characters come out alive, but not much humor to it. A love tragedy which ends Happily Ever After. I enjoyed the reading of this, and watching the BBC production of it. I would like to have a talk with Imogen about her everlasting love for a man who put out a hit on her because of circumstantial evidence, no matter how damning, but other than that it was one of the more satisfying plays I've read recently. I love the part of Pisanio, the servant. In my eyes, he is the man who deserves all praise. If I were ever to direct this play, he would be the focus. A level-headed man amongst all the flighty nobility. (  ) MrsLee | Feb 11, 2022 |
 I confess to a difficulty in feeling civilized just at present. Flying from the country, where the gentlemen of England are in an ecstasy of chicken-butchering, I return to town to find the higher wits assembled at a play three hundred years old, in which the sensation scene exhibits a woman waking up to find her husband reposing gorily in her arms with his head cut off. Pray understand, therefore, that I do not defend Cymbeline. It is for the most part stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order, in parts abominably written, throughout intellectually vulgar, and, judged in point of thought by modern intellectual standards, vulgar, foolish, offensive, indecent, and exasperating beyond all tolerance. Belongs to Publisher Series — 5 more Is contained inThe complete works of William Shakespeare : reprinted from the First Folio (volume 12 of 13) by William Shakespeare Has the adaptationInspiredHas as a studyHas as a student's study guide
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 Google Books — Loading...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)822.33 — Literature English {except North American} English drama Elizabethan 1558-1625 Shakespeare, William 1564–1616LC ClassificationRatingAverage: (3.51)
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I like all the extras you get with these Folger’s editions—the introductory info about Shakespeare’s life, theatre during that period, the First Folio, and essays about the play—so it was a nice supplement to seeing it performed.
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