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*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Cymbeline, also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare, set in Ancient Britain and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance or even a comedy. Like Othello and The Winter's Tale, it deals with the themes of innocence and jealousy. While the precise date of composition remains unknown, the play was certainly produced as early as 1611.

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Cymbeline, the Roman Empire's vassal king of Britain, once had two sons, Guiderius and Arvirargus, but they were stolen twenty years earlier as infants by an exiled traitor named Belarius. Cymbeline now discovers that his only child left, his daughter Imogen (or Innogen), has secretly married her lover Posthumus Leonatus, an otherwise honourable man of Cymbeline's court. The lovers have exchanged jewellery as tokens: Imogen now with a bracelet, and Posthumus with a ring. Cymbeline dismisses the marriage and banishes Posthumus, since Imogen, as Cymbeline's only child, must produce a fully royal-blooded heir to succeed to the British throne. In the meantime, Cymbeline's Queen is conspiring to have Cloten, her cloddish and arrogant son by an earlier marriage, married to Imogen, to secure her bloodline. The Queen is also plotting to murder both Imogen and Cymbeline, procuring what she believes to be deadly poison from the court doctor, Cornelius, who, suspicious, switches the poison with a harmless sleeping potion. The Queen passes the "poison" along to Pisanio, Posthumus and Imogen's loving servant, who is led to believe it is a medicinal drug. No longer able to be with her banished Posthumus, Imogen secludes herself in her chambers, away from Cloten's aggressive advances.

Widely regarded as the greatest play right in the English language William Shakespeare wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets. With works such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Mid Summer's Night Dream and The Taming of the Shrew his work has made a lasting impression on western culture. For the last four hundred years Shakespeare's plays have been the most preformed and studied of any playwright. From the words he invented, to the grammar he developed and phrases that linger in our vernacular the "Bard of Avon" has influenced much of the development of the English language.

Romeo and Juliet may be Shakespeares most known romance, but Cymbeline is home of his most mature…if you can understand it. Let BookCaps help with this modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic tragedy. If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation of Cymbeline. The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

A reader's edition, modernized language ("you" for "thee," etc.) and glossary for unfamiliar words. Cymbeline is one of seven plays of Shakespeare featuring a transgender character. Cymbeline, an early King of England, is actually a minor character in this play about true love and trust through dastardly deeds, shenanigans, deceit, disguise, and an unnecessary war. History? Tragedy? Comedy? Who cares? All plays in this transgender series are modernized as reading copies, retaining some characteristics of the script format. As editor, I keep changes in Shakespeare’s language to a minimum, just enough to be understood immediately without stopping to look up obscure words, expressions, or references. Why change Shakespeare’s golden words? Rachel Burke said it best: Why translate Shakespeare into modern Eng-lish? In a word bardophobia. Bardophobia can be des--cribed as that sweaty discomfort one experiences when seeing the word “thee.” Or “thou.” Or “eft-soons.” Too many students give up on Shake---speare and buy the Cliffs Notes, which all too often are read instead of the play… Why do some critics object to an edited ver-sion of Shakespeare? They object because many editors watered down the original until it is nearly unrecognizable, taking out the similes and metaphors that Aristotle called “the heart of poetry”… The most infamous example is the Family Shakespeare, Henrietta and Thomas Bowdler’s 18th-century ex-pur-gated edition in which all the “nastiness” was simply cut out.… Where Shakespeare wanted his characters to sound crude, they sound crude. If he wanted the to speak in iambic pentameter, they speak in iambic pentameter. I heartily agree. Cymbeline is also included in Seven Plays by William Shakespeare with Transgender Characters, Plus Hamlet (www.createspace.com/3735284). The Shakespeare Playbook series (for directors and producers) can be seen at http://www.bandannabooks.com/drama.php