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SHAKESPEARE
Cymbeline
- Alternative title
- The Shakespeare Plays
- Synopsis
- Television production of Cymbeline with Richard Johnson in the title role and Helen Mirren as Imogen.
- Series
- BBC Television Shakespeare
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain; United States
- Medium
- Television
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Recording date
- 29 Jul 1982
- Transmission details
- 10 Jul 1983 (Channel: BBC2)
- Duration
- 175 mins
Credits
- Director
- Elijah Moshinsky
- Producer
- Shaun Sutton
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Costume
- Dinah Collin
- Art Direction
- Barbara Gosnold
- Contributor
- David Snodin
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Television and Radio Drama
- Historical period
- 17th Century
- Plays
- Cymbeline
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- drama in English; performances; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
- Related items
- Cymbeline
- Cymbeline
Notes
- Notes
- The production is commercially available on DVD as part of the BBC TV SHAKESPEARE COLLECTION box set (see separate entry).
- History
- This production is part of the fifth season (producer: Shaun Sutton). Recording took 7 days.
- Textual information
- Between 1978 and 1986 the BBC published individual scripts of the series. Each volume of The BBC TV Shakespeare, ed. Peter Alexander et al. (London: British Broadcastin
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First performed in 1609-10 and published in the First Folio of 1623, Cymbeline is partly based on a story in Boccaccio's Decameron and partly on Holinshed's Chronicles, the source for most of Shakespeare's histories. Although initially grouped with the Folio's collection of Tragedies, it doesn't really fit that label (the play's two deaths are thoroughly merited), and is now regarded as one of the first of Shakespeare's late romances (alongside Pericles, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest.
Despite being set in ancient Britain and imperial Rome, no attempt has been made at historical realism (Cymbeline, or Cunobelius, is thought to have reigned in early years of the first century AD), and the political elements play second fiddle to the central plot about the contentious romance between the low-born Posthumus and the king's daughter Imogen. The play resurrects many themes from Shakespeare's earlier work (notably As You Like It, with its banished, cross-dressing heroine finding solace in the woods), but there's a darker undercurrent than is found in the comedies, with overtones of rape, betrayal and the constant threat of violent death. It all ends happily, but only at the eleventh hour.
Aside from a truncated silent film adaptation made in the US in 1913, Cymbe