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The famous poet of Victorian era Algernon Charles Swinburne in his book A Study of Shakespeare declared Cymbeline to be "the play of plays. Assessing the play, Swinburne mentioned the following: "Here is depth enough with height enough of tragic beauty and passion, terror and love and pity... and subtlety enough of sweet and bitter truth to attest the passage of the mightiest and wisest scholar or teacher in the school of human spirit."
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare is one of his later plays. Also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, the play was set in the pre-Christian Roman world, Ancient Britain (c. 10–14). It was based on legends that formed part of the body of medieval literature Matter of Britain concerning Cunobeline, the early Celtic British King.
In the First Folio of 1623 it is listed as a tragedy, however modern critics often lean to the view that Cymbeline is a romance or even a comedy. Similarly to Othello and The Winter's Tale, it deals with the eternal themes of innocence and jealousy. While the precise answer on the question ‘when was Cymbeline written’ still doesn’t exist, the play was undeniably produced as early as 1611.
Cymbeline was published in the First Folio from a careful transcript of a theatrical playbook that had included many authorial manuscripts and stage directions. The main theme depicted in Cymbeline is a wager by a husband on his wife’s fidelity, subplot borrowed from a story in Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. How many acts are in Cymbeline? The comedy consists of five acts and each act includes 2 to 5 scenes.
Entire play in one page
Act 1, Scene 1: Britain. The garden of Cymbeline's palace.
Act 1, Scene 2: The same. A public place.
Act 1, Scene 3: A room in Cymbeline's palace.
Act 1, Scene 4: Rome. Philario's house.
Act 1, Scene 5: Britain. A room in Cymbeline's palace.
Act 1, Scene 6: The same. Another room in the palace.
Act 2, Scene 1: Britain. Before Cymbeline's palace.
Act 2, Scene 2: Imogen's bedchamber in Cymbeline's palace:
Act 2, Scene 4: Rome. Philario's house.
Act 2, Scene 5: Another room in Philario's house.
Act 3, Scene 1: Britain. A hall in Cymbeline's palace.
Act 3, Scene 2: Another room in the palace.
Act 3, Scene 3: Wales: a mountainous country with a cave.
Act 3, Scene 4: Country near Milford-Haven.
Act 3, Scene 5: A room in Cymbeline's palace.
Act 3, Scene 6: Wales. Before the cave of Belarius.
Act 3, Scene 7: Rome. A public place.
Act 4, Scene 1: Wales: near the cave of Belarius.
Act 4, Scene 2: Before the cave of Belarius.
Act 4, Scene 3: A room in Cymbeline's palace.
Act 4, Scene 4: Wales: before the cave of Belarius.
Act 5, Scene 1: Britain. The Roman camp.
Act 5, Scene 2: Field of battle between the British and Roman camps.
Act 5, Scene 3: Another part of the field.
Act 5, Scene 4: A British prison.
Act 5, Scene 5: Cymbeline's tent.
So, where does the action in Cymbeline take place? It takes place in such locations as Britain and Rome. King Cymbeline of Britain banishes the husband of his daughter Innogen who is later accused of being unfaithful by Posthumus Leonatus as he makes a bet on his wife’s fidelity. Running away from Britain Innogen becomes a page for the Roman army as it wars with Britain. Finally, Innogen clears her name, find accidentally her long-lost brothers and rejoin her husband. Meanwhile, Cymbeline makes peace with Rome.
Character list of the play Cymbeline
In Britain
In Rome
Apparitions
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