Cymbeline

Cymbeline

by William Shakespeare
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 26/12/2022

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Cymbeline, otherwise called Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain and in light of legends that framed a piece of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. Cymbeline presently finds that his lone youngster left, his little girl Imogen (or Innogen), has subtly hitched her darling Posthumus Leonatus, a generally good man of Cymbeline's court. The Queen is likewise plotting to kill both Imogen and Cymbeline, securing what she accepts to be a lethal toxic substance from the court specialist, Cornelius, who, dubious, switches the toxin with a sleeping chemical. The Queen passes the "poison" along to Pisanio, Posthumus and Imogen's caring worker, who is persuaded to think it is a restorative medication. He has Imogen mask herself as a boy and proceed to Milford Haven to look for work. He additionally gives her the Queen's "poison," accepting it will lighten her mental misery. In the pretense of a boy, Imogen takes on the name "Fidele," signifying "unwavering."Two arrangements of twins are isolated upon entering the world by a tempest adrift: a couple of bosses (both named Antipholus) and a couple of workers (both named Dromio).

ISBN:
9789394401563
9789394401563
Category:
Performing arts: comedy
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
26-12-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Double 9 Books
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, in 1564. The date of his birth is unknown but is celebrated on 23 April, which happens to be St George's Day, and the day in 1616 on which Shakespeare died.

Aged eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. They had three children. Around 1585 William joined an acting troupe on tour in Stratford from London, and thereafter spent much of his life in the capital. By 1595 he had written five of his history plays, six comedies and his first tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. In all, he wrote thirty-seven plays and much poetry, and earned enormous fame in his own lifetime in prelude to his immortality.

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