Cymbeline

Imogen Discovered in the Cave of Belarius by George Dawe.

The Tragedy of Cymbeline is a play by William Shakespeare. It is based on a story in a book called Holinshed's Chronicles by Raphael Holinshed. Shakespeare also used History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth about the real-life British king Cunobelinus. Shakespeare also used a story in a book by Giovanni Boccaccio called Decameron for some details.^[1][2] The first known performance was in April 1611. It was first printed in 1623 in the First Folio, a collection of all of Shakespeare's plays.

References

1. F. D. Hoeniger, "Two Notes on Cymbeline," Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter, 1957), p. 133,
2. Nosworthy, J. M. (1955) Preface in Cymbeline: Second Series p.xxiv.

Other websites

• Cymbeline Archived 2018-09-21 at the Wayback Machine – searchable, indexed e-text
• Cymbeline Archived 2008-07-24 at the Wayback Machine – Full text at M.I.T.
• Cymbeline Archived 2008-07-08 at the Wayback Machine – Scene-indexed play
• Cymbeline – HTML version.
• Cymbeline – Scene-indexed and searchable version of the text.
• Cymbeline Archived 2004-08-04 at Archive.today – plain text from Project Gutenberg
• Cymbeline – different plain text edition