Melly Still is actually explaining the RSC's version of the original play. To anyone researching Cymbeline for the first time, please be aware that Shakespeare's Cymbeline is the king, his wife, the Queen, is the villain, and both Cymbeline's long lost children are male! :-)
@meah1647 Жыл бұрын
I don’t care what anyone says, this is one of my favorite plays
@bellringer9294 ай бұрын
Shakespeare is the master of making improbable still look more improbable and force us to love its poetry nonetheless
@nimium19555 жыл бұрын
O:29 Cloten is the homuncular son ("too bad for bad report") of the scheming queen. Why did RSC screw around with the relationships? What was the point? What does that bring to the play?
@antonellacinefila49738 жыл бұрын
Seeing this video makes even harder to wait until September to see Cymbeline and King Lear!
@isabelroy29337 жыл бұрын
SAME
@michaelmcgowan41093 жыл бұрын
Wow! that was a mouth full!
@noabaak2 жыл бұрын
Best summary.
@chrissystewart41235 жыл бұрын
I'm into Shakespeare My goal is to study his plays I never saw Cymbeline before so I need to study Shakespeare
@Fuliginosus8 жыл бұрын
So basically boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back.
@nimium19555 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Shakespeare typically indulges his neurotic preoccupation with legitimacy, succession, and what we know as "the orderly transfer of power." but doesn't let it get in the way of a good story.
@Salamon23 жыл бұрын
Add in that the boy and girl grow up and learn to have a more complex and adult view of the world, rather than the simple black and white view of the world that they start out with... and the wicked stepmother is a fairy tale trope that's likely played up for intentional camp reasons, because the evil stepmother isn't even being subtle. Like, think Chita Rivera in the 1982 video recording of the musical of Pippin as Fastrada--i.e. knowingly playing up. The play is full of side-eyeing and breaks of the fourth wall as it is in certain respects.
@simonratcliffe2765 Жыл бұрын
Plus the Iachimo plot, Belarius and the story of the lost children, Cloten’s pursuit, the wars and the peace.
@wandamanley74017 жыл бұрын
my theories on this will never be realised..good.
@naly2024 ай бұрын
Brother and sister?? The ones in the woods were both men.
@agenttheater57 жыл бұрын
I am so annoyed with myself that I wasn't able to see this! Why is there always something good on at a time when you just can't drop everything to see a play!
@Doubledig5 жыл бұрын
Available on DVD!
@RKDTOO4 жыл бұрын
So is it Imogene or Innogene?
@rebrebekah4 жыл бұрын
Innogen or Imogen...as in both are correct?
@RKDTOO4 жыл бұрын
@@rebrebekah 🤣
@rebrebekah4 жыл бұрын
@@RKDTOO Sorry, my initial reply didn't make sense :-D
@rebrebekah4 жыл бұрын
@@RKDTOO Sorry...my initial reply didn't make sense :-)
@papagen002 жыл бұрын
What a massively convoluted ridiculous farcical plot. Only Shakespeare could pull it off.
@yussepig66293 жыл бұрын
Why call it Cymbeline if he’s almost irrelevant to the story? Not one of his best anyway….
@LisaStier-q6h19 күн бұрын
Fahey Courts
@YasukoZou-r5y16 күн бұрын
Judah Summit
@michaelnixon5255 жыл бұрын
More crap from the R.S.C. It's not Cloten - it's Clooooten - long O. And it's not Posthumus - the accent is on the first rather than the second syllable. Where do they got these people from to direct these plays ? .
@maxthomas68824 жыл бұрын
It's very difficult for us to say for sure; but, as it happens, the metre gives a pretty good indication that the 2nd syll. of Posthumus was accented (see, for eg, 3.4.61, 4.2.307, 5.4.38). Likewise, there's a good chance Cloten was pronounced with a short 'o' in order to match 'clotpoll': see 4.2.183. Hope that helps clear up the confusion!