Cymbeline
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About This Book
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.
Chapters (28)
- SCENE: Britain; Italy
- ACT I. SCENE I. Britain. The garden of CYMBELINE'S palace
- SCENE II. Britain. A public place
- SCENE III. Britain. CYMBELINE'S palace
- SCENE IV. Rome. PHILARIO'S house
- SCENE V. Britain. CYMBELINE'S palace
- SCENE VI. Britain. The palace
- ACT II. SCENE I. Britain. Before CYMBELINE'S palace
- SCENE II. Britain. IMOGEN'S bedchamber in CYMBELINE'S palace; a trunk in one corner
- SCENE III. CYMBELINE'S palace. An ante-chamber adjoining IMOGEN'S apartments
- SCENE IV. Rome. PHILARIO'S house
- SCENE V. Rome. Another room in PHILARIO'S house
- ACT III. SCENE I. Britain. A hall in CYMBELINE'S palace
- SCENE II. Britain. Another room in CYMBELINE'S palace
- SCENE III. Wales. A mountainous country with a cave
- SCENE IV. Wales, near Milford Haven
- SCENE V. Britain. CYMBELINE'S palace
- SCENE VI. Wales. Before the cave of BELARIUS
- SCENE VII. Rome. A public place
- ACT IV. SCENE I. Wales. Near the cave of BELARIUS
- SCENE II. Wales. Before the cave of BELARIUS
- SCENE III. Britain. CYMBELINE'S palace
- SCENE IV. Wales. Before the cave of BELARIUS
- ACT V. SCENE I. Britain. The Roman camp
- SCENE II. Britain. A field of battle between the British and Roman camps
- SCENE III. Another part of the field
- SCENE IV. Britain. A prison
- SCENE V. Britain. CYMBELINE'S tent
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