[Gutenberg 1799] • Cymbeline
- Authors
- Shakespeare, William
- Publisher
- Simon Schuster
- Tags
- tragicomedy , classics , 55 b.c.-449 a.d. -- drama , married people -- drama , britons -- kings and rulers -- drama , fathers and daughters -- drama , great britain -- history -- roman period
- ISBN
- 9780671722593
- Date
- 1610-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.09 MB
- Lang
- en
Cymbeline tells the story of a British king, Cymbeline, and his three children, presented as though they are in a fairy tale. The secret marriage of Cymbeline’s daughter, Imogen, triggers much of the action, which includes villainous slander, homicidal jealousy, cross-gender disguise, a deathlike trance, and the appearance of Jupiter in a vision.
Cymbeline displays unusually powerful emotions with a tremendous charge. Like some of Shakespeare’s other late work—especially The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest—it is an improbable story lifted into a nearly mythic realm.