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Cymbeline (Modern Library Classics)
William Shakespeare
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN: 0812969421
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
“Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”
—Cymbeline
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this classic tragedy in which nothing is as it seems.
THIS VOLUME ALSO INCLUDES MORE THAN A HUNDRED PAGES OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
• an original Introduction to Cymbeline
• incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about the work
• commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers
• photographs of key RSC productions
• an overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career and chronology of his plays
Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
sustain what you’re worthy102 of by your attempt. IACHIMO What’s that? POSTHUMUS A repulse, though your attempt, as you call it, deserve more: a punishment too. PHILARIO Gentlemen, enough of this, it came in107 too suddenly. Let it die as it was born, and I pray you be better acquainted. IACHIMO Would I had put my estate109 and my neighbour’s on th’approbation110 of what I have spoke. POSTHUMUS What lady would you choose to assail? IACHIMO Yours, whom in constancy you
its dizzying, strange brilliance: “The finale is an intricate, beautiful machine in which an astonishing number of disguises are removed, misunderstandings swept away and reunions accomplished.”4 Traditionally, the play’s three main plots have been identified as the marriage/wager plot (involving Innogen’s marriage to Posthumus, his resultant banishment, Cloten’s attempted “revenge,” and the wager Posthumus makes with Iachimo over Innogen’s fidelity), the dynastic plot (involving the return of
Guiderius, Arviragus, Pisanio and Roman Captives [with Jailers]. The Captains present Posthumus to Cymbeline, who delivers him over to a Jailer [Exeunt all but Posthumus and two Jailers] FIRST JAILER You shall not now be stol’n, you have locks upon you103; So graze as you find pasture. SECOND JAILER Ay, or a stomach.105 [Exeunt Jailers] POSTHUMUS Most welcome bondage, for thou art a way, I think, to liberty: yet am I better Than one that’s sick o’th’gout, since he had rather
Latin mulier, meaning “woman” 245 jointed grafted 246 stock trunk 249 stuff nonsense 250 Tongue … not speak without comprehending the meaning 250 both i.e. a dream and madness 253 which i.e. the tablet 259 dish … shot the meal justifies its price 260 shot tavern bill 261 reckoning settlement 266 paid punished 267 heavier … light duller/sleepier as a result of being drunk (light-headed) 268 drawn of heaviness emptied of that which made it heavy i.e. money 268 Of from 269
may have been inspired by Beaumont and Fletcher’s recent play Philaster, a pioneering work of Jacobean tragicomedy with a girl disguised as a boy, a mischief-making older woman, a virtuous lady accused of an illicit sexual liaison, a contrast between a noble hero and an ignoble prince, the forbidden marriage of a princess to a commoner, a movement from court to country, and elements of masque form. Some scholars, however, propose that Cymbeline influenced Philaster rather than vice versa. TEXT:
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