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The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare, Volume 06: Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

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By William Shakespeare

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, released among 1921 and 1966, grew to become the vintage Cambridge version of Shakespeare's performs and poems until eventually the Nineteen Eighties. The sequence, lengthy considering the fact that out-of-print, is now reissued. each one paintings is accessible either separately and as a suite, and every incorporates a long and energetic advent, major textual content, and enormous notes and thesaurus revealed on the again. The version, which begun with The Tempest and ended with The Sonnets, positioned into perform the recommendations and theories that had advanced below the 'New Bibliography'. Remarkably via brand new criteria, even though it took the easiest a part of part a century to provide, the recent Shakespeare concerned just a small band of editors along with Dover Wilson himself. because the volumes took form, a lot of Dover Wilson's textual equipment received common recognition and have become a longtime a part of later editorial perform, for instance within the Arden and New Cambridge Shakespeares.

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Xvi-xix. * Prefaces to Shakespeare> Second Series (1930), pp. 305-6. 3 Arden edition (1955)* Introduction, p. li. xl CYMBELINE paradoxical terms. Thus we find Henry James writing of the Henry Irving production of 1896,1 The thing is a florid fairy-tale, of a construction so loose and unpropped that it can scarce be said to stand upright at all, and of a psychological sketchiness that never touches firm ground, but plays, at its better times, with an indifferent shake of golden locks, in the high, sunny air of delightful poetry.

31318. C. B. Hogan in his Shakespeare in the Theatre: London, 1701-50 (1952)5 p. 102, analyses the play scene by scene, noting its agreement with, and divergence from, Shakespeare. STAGE-HISTORY xlv part. In all the latest three, in precisely the same way, Bullock was followed by Walker as Shattillion and Mrs Bullock by Mrs Templer as Eugenia. The original play replaced D'Urfey from 1744 onwards, when, on 8 November, it was shown at the Haymarket. 1 In April 1746, at Covent Garden, the cast included Ryan (Posthumus), Hale (Jachimo), Bridgwater (Pisanio), and Mrs Pritchard (Imogen).

Xi, there is some reason to suppose that Philaster is later than The 1 We do not always realize how exceptional King Lear and Cymbeline are in their choice of historical material. The earlier extant plays drawing on the pre-English period of British history are an unimpressive lot: Gorboduc, The Misfortunes of Arthur, Leir, Locrine, Nobody and Somebody, of which only the last is later than the early 1590*5. After Cymbeline too there are only Bonduca, Fuimus Troes, The Valiant Welshman, The Mayor of Queenborough, and The Birth of Merlin, the last two perhaps revisions of pre-1600 plays.

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