Book description
The King of Britain, enraged by his daughter's disobedience in marrying
against his wishes, banishes his new son-in-law. Having fled to Rome,
the exiled husband makes a foolish wager with a villain he encounters
there - gambling on the fidelity of his abandoned wife. Combining
courtly menace and horror, comedy and melodrama, Cymbeline is a moving
depiction of two young lovers driven apart by deceit and self-doubt.
Stanley Wells is the General Editor of the Penguin Shakespeare. He is
Emeritus Professor of the University of Birmingham and Chairman of the
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
John Pitcher is a fellow of St John's College, Oxford and
specialises in Shakespeare and the literature and poetry of the
Renaissance period.
Stanley Wells is the General Editor of the Penguin Shakespeare. He
is Emeritus Professor of the University of Birmingham and Chairman of
the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He is general editor of the Oxford
Shakespeare and his books include Shakespeare: The poet and His Plays
and Shakespeare: For All Time.
John Pitcher is a fellow of St John's College, Oxford and
specialises in Shakespeare and the literature and poetry of the
Renaissance period.
