Cymbeline - William Shakespeare - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781976511066 - September 18, 2017
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Cymbeline

William Shakespeare

Cymbeline

Cymbeline also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain or The Tragedy of Cymbeline, is a play by William Shakespeare, based on legends concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance. Like Othello and The Winter's Tale, it deals with the themes of innocence and jealousy. While the precise date of composition remains unknown, the play was certainly produced as early as 1611. The plot of Cymbeline is based on a tale in the chronicles of Raphael Holinshed and is ultimately derived from part of the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth about the real-life British monarch Cunobelinus. Shakespeare, however, freely adapts the legend and adds entirely original sub-plots. Iachimo's wager and subsequent hiding-place inside a chest in order to gather details of Imogen's room derive from story II.9 of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 18, 2017
ISBN13 9781976511066
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 180
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 10 mm   ·   249 g
Language English  

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