Cymbeline (Arkangel Shakespeare - Fully Dramatized) (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare)
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932219072 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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“A remarkable edition, one that makes Shakespeare’s extraordinary accomplishment more vivid than ever.”—James Shapiro, professor, Columbia University, bestselling author of A Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599 “A feast of literary and historical information.”—The Wall Street Journal
Plays were not prized as literature at the time, and Shakespeare was not widely read until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a great upsurge of interest in his works began that continues today.. He was an active member of a theater company for at least twenty years, during which time he wrote many great plays. William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and dramatis
Ricardo Mio said Shakespeare taking chances. Cymbeline is among Shakespeare's last five plays, four of which are romances: "Pericles," "The Winter's Tale," "The Tempest," and "Cymbeline." “Cymbeline" is the least performed of the four; the plot is complicated, and the characters are mostly one dimensional (except for the heroine Imogen and the Machiavellian Iachimo). The play is ambitious, too, and entails all of Shakespeare's favorite subjects: love, loss, treachery, the unequal conflict between the good and the evil, and the fragile balance between men and women. However, Imogen is one of the Bard's inspired creations, on the level of Rosalind, but put throu. sadpanda7"Missing most of the play!" according to sadpanda72. This version of the play is MISSING Acts III and IV.Act IV, Scene ii contains some of the most famous lines of Shakespeare: "Fear no more the heat of the sun " So, if you need this play, are crunched for time, and need it to supplement a research paper on stream-of-consciousness and Mrs. Dalloway I would definitely GET ANOTHER VERSION!Thanks a lot for the complete rip off.. said Missing most of the play!. This version of the play is MISSING Acts III and IV.Act IV, Scene ii contains some of the most famous lines of Shakespeare: "Fear no more the heat of the sun " So, if you need this play, are crunched for time, and need it to supplement a research paper on stream-of-consciousness and Mrs. Dalloway I would definitely GET ANOTHER VERSION!Thanks a lot for the complete rip off.. "You're all missing the point" according to Michael M.. I think you're all missing the point (or a bunch of ringers from digireads.com). What we have here is the basic text derived a scanned version of the play, with no background information on how the text came to be. It's a decent enough interpretation, but with absolutely no editorial assistance to understand the language or the context in which the ideas of the author are set forth. Definitely better than nothing, though.
Stephen Mangan plays Cloten, and Ron Cook plays Iachimo.This strange, dark romance includes two songs composed by Shakespeare that are amongst the most beautiful in the English language. Disguised as a boy, she sets out to find her husband, the banished Posthumus. Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline, is persecuted by her wicked stepmother, the Queen, and by Cloten, the Queens doltish son. Posthumus, meanwhile, has been convinced by the villainous Iachimo that Imogen is unfaithful to him.. Full-Cast Audio Theater Dramatization. On her journey, she unwittingly meets her two brothers, stolen from the court as infants and brought up in rustic innocence, unaware of their princely identities. Sophie Thompson is Imogen, and Ben Porter is Posthumus. Cymbeline is played by Jack Shepherd while Suzanne Bertish is the Queen