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Cymbeline (New Cambridge Shakespeare) (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)

By: William Shakespeare
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521296943
ISBN-13: 9780521296946
Released: 10 Mar 2005
RRP: £7.99
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Wonderful play - skittish edition - By: , 15 Jul 2001
Cymbeline is a wonderful work; why don't we see it more often?

However, this edition is a mixed bag. Warren's insistence on callling the main female character Innogen (instead of the more usual Imogen) is irritating after a while - however well-attested. "When the legend becomes true, print the legend."

I'm not convinced about his text either, some of his ideas seem wayward & quirky -as if he is trying to put his mark on the play instead of trying to reveal it in alll its glory.

The play is better than this edition would let you know.

Brilliant analysis and evaluation of a great play - By: , 09 Dec 1997
Granville-Barker's prefaces to Shakespeare are highly regarded as the first such written from a theatrical (as opposed to literary) point of view. This approach pays particularly high dividends in dealing with this, one of WS's least appreciated plays. (I am currently appearing in a production of it in NYC -- in a smalll role.) Jan Kott, in describing "Troilus & Cressida" in the 60's, callled it "amazing & modern." Cymbeline, in the 90's, seems strikingly post-modern, & Granville Barker, writing in the 20's, accurately describes features of the play which speak strongly to our highly collage-like contemporary approach to art. Highly recommended (as is the Arden edition of the play itself, probably the most charming of alll the Arden editions).