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Shakespeare’s Cymbeline explores how to live through the end of the world

By Michael Newton, Lecturer, Centre for the Arts in Society, Leiden University
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 hotch-potch of incongruities.

It’s true that it’s hard to even know what kind of play Cymbeline is. The First Folio, the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, presents it as the last of his tragedies.…The Conversation


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