Thank you to Eoin Price for offering an introduction to Cymbeline:
Eoin Price is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Swansea University. He is the author of ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ Playhouses in Renaissance England (Palgrave, 2015). His current project, Shakespeare’s Successors, examines what the King’s Men did after Shakespeare retired, focusing in particular on the plays of John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. The project has received funding support from the Society for Theatre Research, the Harry Ransom Center, and the Huntington Library.
Many thanks, also, to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.
Great intro. Thanks!
Thanks for this Eoin. As part of my lockdown reading I’ve been reading the 5 or so Shakespeares I’d never managed to read, of which Cymbeline was one. An amazing piece – Tennyson’s favourite Shakespeare play, which, given Tennyson’s lush, thanotropic, even perverse side, tells us something about the play as well as its reception history. You probably know this, but David Britton’s partner Alison produced the Radio 3 (or 4?) production of a few years back: I think it’s still available somewhere.
Thanks for this great intro, very interesting as Cymbeline is so rarely done and I’ve not seen it performed. cheers
-Michael