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William Shakespeare

Cymbeline

Penguin Shakespeare
John Pitcher - Author
William Shakespeare - Author
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Book: Paperback | 111 x 181mm | 416 pages | ISBN 9780140707427 | 07 Apr 2005 | Penguin Classic
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Cymbeline

One of Shakespeare's late romances - along with Pericles, The Tempest and The Winter's Tale - Cymbeline tells three connected stories: the resistance of a British king to Roman rule; the story of two lovers Imogen and Posthumous driven apart by the lies of the villainous Jachimo; and the tale of two young princes kidnapped from the royal household and raised in the wild. Weaving together themes from Shakespeare's greatest comedies and tragedies, this is a play in which disguise and misunderstanding eventually give way to revelation and reconciliation.

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