Cymbeline

Written by William Shakespeare

Narrated by LibriVox Community

Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare's late romances, which (like The Tempest and The Winter's Tale) combines comedy and tragedy. Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline of Britain, angers her father when she marries Posthumus, a worthy but penniless gentleman. The King banishes Posthumus, who goes to Rome, where he falls prey to the machinations of Iachimo, who tries to convince him that Imogen will be unfaithful. Meanwhile, the Queen (Imogen's stepmother) plots against her stepdaughter by trying to plan a match between Imogen and her worthless son Cloten. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Cast:

Arviragus: om123
Attendant and First Gaoler: Bill Mosley
Belarius: Algy Pug
Caius Lucius: Mark F. Smith
Cloten: mb
Cornelius: Amy Gramour
Cymbeline: Bruce Pirie
First British Captain and Messenger: Elizabeth Klett
First Brother: John Fricker
First Gentleman and First Senator: Algy Pug
First Lady: rashada
First Lord: rf
First Tribune and Roman Captain: Bill Mosley
Frenchman and Soothsayer: Timothy Ferguson
Guiderius: Denny Sayers
Iachimo: John Fricker
Imogen: Elizabeth Klett
Jupiter: Elizabeth Klett
Mother: Sweetlilbirdy
Philario: Raken
Pisanio: Matthew Reece
Posthumus Leonatus: David Goldfarb
Queen: Arielle Lipshaw
Second British Captain, Second Gentleman, and Second Senator: John Fricker
Second Brother, Second Lord, and Second Gaoler: Arielle Lipshaw
Sicilius Leonatus: Jason Bortles
Narrator: David Lawrence

Audio edited by: mb

• Language: English
• Publisher: LibriVox
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.