Shakespeare throws caution to the wind in “Cymbeline,” a late romance so fantastically convoluted that the characters themselves can’t help expressing disbelief at what occurs. The plot, a stuffed ...
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 Public Theater can do no wrong these days. First “Fun Home,” then “Hamilton,” and now a “Cymbeline” in Central Park that makes joyous sense out of a play that even the most devoted of ...
Cymbeline is a ruler of a divided Britain. When Innogen, the only living heir, marries her sweetheart in secret, an enraged Cymbeline banishes him. But a powerful figure behind the throne is plotting ...