Cymbeline

Hardback

Main Details

Title Cymbeline
Authors and Contributors      By (author) William Shakespeare
Edited by Martin Butler
SeriesThe New Cambridge Shakespeare
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:268
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 158
Category/GenreShakespeare plays
ISBN/Barcode 9780521228787
ClassificationsDewey:822.33 822.3/3 822.33
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
General
Illustrations 14 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 10 March 2005
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This new edition of Shakespeare's Cymbeline takes full account of the critical and historical scholarship produced in the late twentieth century. It foregrounds the elements of romance, tragicomedy and Jacobean stagecraft which together shape the play; it also acknowledges the postmodern indeterminacy of the play's key moments. Martin Butler breaks with the legacy of the sentimental Victorian reading of the heroine, Innogen, which still exerts some hold on production and interpretation today, and has given greater space than his predecessors to the politics of 1610, especially to questions of British union and nationhood. The play has been freshly edited from the text in the 1623 folio, with some interesting textual choices, and has a detailed commentary on linguistic and historical aspects of the text. There is also a full treatment of the play's stage history, from 1610 to the present day.