Cymbeline - William Shakespeare Audiobook
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Cymbeline - Synopsis
Cymbeline belongs to the group of plays named the 'Shakespeare's Late Romances' along with Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The Tempest, and The Winter's Tale. Although it was grouped with the tragedies in the First Folio, today it is more often counted with the comedies. King Cymbeline, the main character of the play, is based on a British chieftain, Cunobelinus, who reigned before the time of the Roman invasion.
The plot is very convoluted: Posthumus has secretly married Imogen, daughter of King Cymbeline, as a result, Cymbeline banishes Posthumus from the kingdom. Iachimo, a soldier in the Roman army, makes a bet with Posthumus that he can tempt Imogen to be unfaithful. Imogen learns of this bet and fakes her death and flees to Milford Haven on the West Coast of Britain, where she makes friends with two men, who are her brothers (she knows nothing of them and they don't know they are sons of Cymbeline, as they were kidnapped by Belarius when they were very young). At the end everything starts to fall into place, as usual with Shakespeare and the complicated plot is resolved in a happy ending:
Cymbeline makes a speech to the gods and declares peace and friendship between Britain and Rome: "Never was a war did cease, Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace."
Harper Collins Audiobook
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Author : William Shakespeare
Narrator : Full Cast Production
Publisher : Harper Collins US
Length : 2 hours 55 minutes
Categories : Shakespeare
Our Price : $11.95
This is the first new, full-scale edition of Cymbeline in 37 years. One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of marriage imperiled by mistrust and painfully rebuilt in the context of international conflict.
Roger Warren's commentary emphasizes the play's theatrical impact and pays close attention to its complex, evocative language.
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