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The question could easily arise again with that same author’s “Cymbeline,” but at least in the case of the production, the name of the dramatist is built into that of the troupe: Chicago Shakespeare ...
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Song mash-ups are familiar in pop culture. But in one of William Shakespeare’s lesser-known plays, “Cymbeline,” the literary great created a mash-up of our favorite fairy tales tropes, as well as ...
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Written in 1611, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline is a raw mess – full of feeling and as messy as life. The 18th-century man of letters, Samuel Johnson decried the play as a work of “unresisting imbecility”, a ...
The oddest of Shakespeare’s late-career romances, “Cymbeline” is far from the Bard at his best. The tone seesaws all over the place. The plot is so complicated it takes a near endless series of ...
It’s a Shakespeare production with an occasional interlude, a jingle performed to the tune of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” The nursery rhyme is what the Los Angeles Drama Club’s young theater students ...
“Every good servant does not all commands,” muses Posthumus, the tormented young British warrior in Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline,” played by Penn Badgley in Michael Almereyda’s eccentric but addictive ...
The cast of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's "Cymbeline." (Courtesy Evgenia Eliseeva) If they set up a roller coaster on Boston Common, there would be no more twists and hairpin turns than there are ...
Why have one case of mistaken identity when you can have four or five? Shakespeare lays it on thick in Cymbeline, currently being revived in a production by Fiasco Theater. Here’s the plot that the ...
Years ago, a Chicago director, while preparing a production of “Coriolanus,” was repeatedly asked, “Who wrote that?” The question could easily arise again with that same author’s “Cymbeline,” but at ...