Cymbeline

William Shakespeare · c. 1610 CE · Play · English · Renaissance

Imogen, daughter of a British king, marries beneath her; her husband is banished to Rome, where a stranger bets him that her virtue can be bought. The wager sets off a drugged potion, a boy's disguise, a Roman invasion and two lost princes raised in a Welsh cave. The romances' wildest plot.

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Lineage

• shares sources with ↑ King Lear
  William Shakespeare · c. 1606 CE · Play
• shares sources with ↑ All's Well That Ends Well
  William Shakespeare · c. 1605 CE · Play
• influenced by ↑ Pericles
  William Shakespeare · c. 1608 CE · Play

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