Cymbeline

The Tragedy of Cymbeline  is a play by William Shakespeare. It is based on a story in a book called Holinshed's Chronicles by Raphael Holinshed. Shakespeare also used History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth about the real-life British king Cunobelinus. Shakespeare also used a story in a book by Giovanni Boccaccio called Decameron for some details.F. D. Hoeniger, "Two Notes on Cymbeline," Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter, 1957), p. 133,Nosworthy, J. M. (1955) Preface in Cymbeline: Second Series p.xxiv. The first known performance was in April 1611. It was first printed in 1623 in the First Folio, a collection of all of Shakespeare's plays. 

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Other websites

 Cymbeline  – searchable, indexed e-text
 Cymbeline  – Full text at M.I.T.
 Cymbeline  – Scene-indexed play
 Cymbeline – HTML version.
 Cymbeline – Scene-indexed and searchable version of the text.
 Cymbeline  – plain text from Project Gutenberg
 Cymbeline – different plain text edition

Category:Plays by William Shakespeare
Category:1610s plays