Cymbeline

The Mythical British King Cymbeline is identified with Cunobelinus

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Cymbeline is a play by William Shakespeare. Critics often put it in a grouping called Shakespeare's Late Romances along with Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The Tempest, and The Winter's Tale.

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The King, Cymbeline himself, is based on a British chieftain, Cunobelinus, who reigned before the time of the Roman invasion.

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Though once held in very high regard, Cymbeline has lost popularity over the past century. Some Wikipedians have held that, written late in Shakespeare's career, the play was a personal joke of Shakespeare's, parodying his earlier works. Both William Hazlitt and John Keats numbered it among their favorite plays.

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Cunobelinus: Cunobelinus (also written Kynobellinus, Cunobelin) (late 1st century BCE - 40s CE) was a historical king of the Catuvellauni tribe of pre-Roman Britain. He also appears in British legend as Cymbeline or Kymbeline (inspiration for William Shakespeare's tragedy, Cymbeline), and in Welsh, Kynvelyn or C...

William Shakespeare: William Shakespeare (baptised April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) was an English poet and playwright who has a reputation as one of the greatest of all writers in the English language and in Western literature, as well as one of the world's pre-eminent dramatists....

Shakespeare's Late Romances: The late romances, often simply called the romances are a grouping of William Shakespeare's later plays, including Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. The last two are generally considered superior. The Two Noble Kinsmen is sometimes included in this grouping. T...

Cymbeline related Images and Photos (experimental)

Imogen from Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" 1872