Cymbeline

The Mythical British King Cymbeline is identified with Cunobelinus

Notes

Imogen is one of the relatively small number of great female roles in Shakespeare.

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The Yale Shakespeare edition suggests the presence of a collaborator during the writing of this play, and certainly some scenes (Act II scene 7 and Act V scene 2) may strike the reader as less characteristic of Shakespeare than the rest of the play.

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Probably the most famous verses in the play come from the funeral song of Act IV, Scene 2, which begins:

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:Fear no more the heat o' the sun,

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:Nor the furious winter's rages;

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:Thou thy worldly task hast done,

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:Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages:

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:Golden lads and girls all must,

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:As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

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