Front Row | The making of the new RSC production of Cymbeline
Cymbeline
In this special edition, Front Row follows the making of the Royal Shakespeare Company's new production of Cymbeline - the final play in Shakespeare's First Folio.
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- Type: Factual
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 41'59''
- Broadcast date: 2023
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
- Shakespeare Archive Resource
Prefaces to Shakespeare | Cymbeline
Jeffery Dench, actor and an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, introduces the play and characters. "We have Imogen at the core, this pure white lovely girl on a hazardous journey surrounded by rainbow-coloured people who seem to be the symbols of human fallibility and the human power of destruction."
Drama on 3 | Cymbeline
A 2006 radio adaptation of William Shakespeare's drama Cymbeline. When Cymbeline discovers his daughter Imogen's secret marriage to Posthumus, he banishes her husband. But Posthumus's boasts of his wife's chastity provoke lachimo to attempt her seduction.