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Cymbeline Refinished

Short Play, Comedy  /  1w, 10m

Here Shaw supplies a "better" ending for Cymbeline. Shakespeare's melodramatic devices Posthumous' dream, the Queen's death and Cymbeline's identification of Guiderius by a birthmark are eliminated. Instead, Imogen chides Posthumous for trying to have her killed and neither of the long lost sons…

Cymbeline Refinished

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    1w, 10m

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Here Shaw supplies a "better" ending for Cymbeline. Shakespeare's melodramatic devices Posthumous' dream, the Queen's death and Cymbeline's identification of Guiderius by a birthmark are eliminated. Instead, Imogen chides Posthumous for trying to have her killed and neither of the long lost sons wants to be King. In Selected Short Plays.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. After working in an estate agent's office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876), where he established hims ...

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