The 'Song' from Act II, Scene 3 "(Hark, hark! the lark)" was set to music by Franz Schubert in 1826. Perhaps the most famous verses in the play come from the funeral song of Act IV, Scene 2, which begins: The first two lines are quoted by Virginia Woolf in "Mrs. Dalloway" by the two main characters Clarissa and Septimus Smith. The lines, which turn Mrs. Dalloway's thoughts to the trauma of the First World War, are at once an elegiac dirge and a profoundly dignified declaration of endurance. The song provides a major organisational motif for the novel. The final couplet also appears in the Anton Myrer novel, "The Last Convertible".
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Cymbeline
Cymbeline | Cultural references
The first two lines of a song are quoted by Virginia Woolf in "Mrs. Dalloway" by the two main characters Clarissa and Septimus Smith. The 'Song' from Act II, Scene 3 "(Hark, hark! the lark)" was set to music by Franz Schubert in 1826. The 'Song' from Act II, Scene 3 "(Hark, hark! the lark)" was set to music by Franz Schubert in 1826. The 'Song' from Act II, Scene 3 "(Hark, hark! the lark)" was set to music by Franz Schubert in 1826.
who directed the first friday the 13th movie
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Sean S. Cunningham
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New York City
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Cunningham's first jobs after graduating from Stanford included managing theater companies such as New York's Lincoln Center as well as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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Ashland, Oregon.
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Angus L. Bowmer, Jerry Turner and Henry Woronicz.
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He was the founder of the theatre mentioned.
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Bellingham, Washington.
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"Love's Labor's Lost" and "Cymbeline".
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Lytton Strachey found it "difficult to resist the conclusion that was getting bored himself.
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Yes, in 1913.
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Prior to operatic adaptations only incidental music was composed. The first operatic adaption seems to be composed by Edmond Missa in 1894, under the title "Dinah"; American composer Christopher Berg composed another one, of which scenes were performed in 2009.
Cymbeline | Stage adaptions
Some details of this alteration survived in productions at least until the middle of the century. William Hawkins revised the play again in 1759. His was among the last of the heavy revisions designed to bring the play in line with classical unities. He cut the Queen, reduced the action to two places (the court and a forest in Wales). The dirge "With fairest flowers..." was set to music by Thomas Arne. Nearer the end of the century, Henry Brooke wrote an adaptation which was apparently never staged. His version eliminates the brothers altogether as part of a notable enhancement of Posthumus' role in the play.
Cymbeline | Adaptations
The 'Song' from Act II, Scene 3 "(Hark, hark! the lark)" was set to music by Franz Schubert in 1826. Perhaps the most famous verses in the play come from the funeral song of Act IV, Scene 2, which begins: The first two lines are quoted by Virginia Woolf in "Mrs. Dalloway" by the two main characters Clarissa and Septimus Smith. The lines, which turn Mrs. Dalloway's thoughts to the trauma of the First World War, are at once an elegiac dirge and a profoundly dignified declaration of endurance. The song provides a major organisational motif for the novel. The final couplet also appears in the Anton Myrer novel, "The Last Convertible".
Cymbeline | Cultural references
Lucius J. Henderson directed the first screen adaptation of "Cymbeline" in 1913. The film was produced by the Thanhouser Company and starred Florence La Badie as Imogen, James Cruze as Posthumus, William Garwood as Iachimo, William Russell as Cymbeline, and Jean Darnell as the Queen. In 1937 the BBC broadcast several scenes of André van Gyseghem's production of the play, which opened 16 November the same year, on television. The scenes that comprised the broadcast were pulled exclusively from Acts I and II of the play, and included the 'trunk scene' from Act II Scene 2. In 1956 the BBC produced a similar television program, this time airing scenes from Michael Benthall's theatrical production, which opened 11 September 1956.
Cymbeline | Screen adaptations
"Cymbeline" is grounded in the story of the historical British king Cunobeline, which was originally recorded in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, but which Shakespeare likely found in the 1587 edition of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles. Shakespeare based the setting of the play and the character Cymbeline on what he found in Holinshed's chronicles, but the plot and subplots of the play are derived from other sources. The subplot of Posthumus and Iachimo's wager derives from story II.9 of Giovanni Boccaccio's "The Decameron" and the anonymously authored "Frederyke of Jennen". These share similar characters and wager terms, and both feature Iachimo's equivalent hiding in a chest in order to gather proof in Imogen's room.
Cymbeline | Sources
It is recognized as being close to the original Shakespeare, although there are several differences. Changes included the shortening of Imogen's burial scene and the entire fifth act, including the removal of Posthumus' dream. Garrick's text was first performed in November of that year, starring Garrick himself as Posthumus. Several scholars have indicated that Garrick's Posthumus was much liked. Valerie Wayne notes that Garrick's changes made the play more nationalistic, representing a trend in perception of "Cymbeline" during that period. Garrick's version of "Cymbeline" would prove popular; it was staged a number of times over the next few decades. In the late eighteenth century, Cymbeline was performed in Jamaica.
Cymbeline | Performance history
Like the 1937 program, the 1956 broadcast ran for roughly half an hour and presented several scenes from "Cymbeline," including the trunk scene. In 1968 Jerzy Jarocki directed an adaptation of the play for Polish television, starring Wiktor Sadecki as Cymbeline and Ewa Lassek as Imogen.
Cymbeline | Screen adaptations
Iachimo's description of Imogen's room as proof of her infidelity derives from "The Decameron", and Pisanio's reluctance to kill Imogen and his use of her bloody clothes to convince Posthumus of her death derive from "Frederyke of Jennen." In both sources, the equivalent to Posthumus' bracelet is stolen jewellery that the wife later recognises while cross-dressed. Shakespeare also drew inspiration for "Cymbeline" from a play called "The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune," first performed in 1582. There are many parallels between the characters of the two plays, including a king's daughter who falls for a man of unknown birth who grew up in the king's court.
Cymbeline | Sources
On review aggregating website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a score of 31%, based on 29 reviews, with an average rating of 4.6/10. On Metacritic, which uses a weighted score, the film has a rating of 54 out of 100 based on 15 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Cymbeline (film) | Reception
The play was adapted by Thomas d'Urfey as "The Injured Princess, or, the Fatal Wager"; this version was produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, presumably by the united King's Company and Duke's Company, in 1682. The play changes some names and details, and adds a subplot, typical of the Restoration, in which a virtuous waiting-woman escapes the traps laid by Cloten. D'Urfey also changes Pisanio's character so that he at once believes in Imogen's (Eugenia, in D'Urfey's play) guilt. For his part, D'Urfey's Posthumus is ready to accept that his wife might have been untrue, as she is young and beautiful.
Cymbeline | Adaptations
(Here Hazlitt incorporates material from his essay "Shakespear's Female Characters", published in the "Examiner" on 28 July 1816.)
Characters of Shakespear's Plays | "Cymbeline"
Examples: This expression in literature is found in Mystery-Bouffe, a socialist dramatic play written by Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1918/1921:
Bublik | Cultural references
A film version of "Cymbeline" was released in 2014, starring Milla Jovovich, Ethan Hawke, Penn Badgely, John Leguizamo and Ed Harris. "The Tempest" has been adapted most often. A silent film version was made in 1908. Later adaptations include, "Yellow Sky" (1948) – set in the wild west, with Gregory Peck and Anne Baxter; "Forbidden Planet" (1956) – a science fiction classic set in outer space; Derek Jarman's 1979 version relocated to a crumbling mansion off the Scottish coast; "Tempest" (1982) – set on a Greek isle, with John Cassavetes, Molly Ringwald, Gena Rowlands and Susan Sarandon; "Prospero's Books" (1991) starring John Gielgud – which is not so much an adaptation as a reading of the play, combining film, dance, opera, and animation; and a 2010 version with Prospero recast as Prospera, played by Helen Mirren.
Shakespeare's late romances | Film adaptations
David Vincent and a reporter discuss this musical in The Invaders episode The Prophet.
Where's Charley? | Cultural References
It may also reflect English anxiety about the loyalty of the Welsh and the possibility of future invasions at Milford.
Cymbeline | Date and text
In "The Browning Version" (Terence Rattigan's 1948 play or one of several film adaptations), a pupil makes a parting present to his teacher of an inscribed copy of Browning's translation of the "Agamemnon".
Robert Browning | Cultural references
Unlike other Shakespearean agents of onstage gender fluidity – Portia, Rosalind, Viola and Julia – Imogen is not afforded empowerment upon her transformation into Fidele. Instead, Imogen's power is inherited from her father and based upon the prospect of reproduction.
Cymbeline | Gender and sexuality
The plot of Cymbeline originally written and recorded by William Shakespeare is a play organized by the South Sudan Theatre Company.
Cymbeline (South Sudan Theatre Company) | Introduction
Cymbeline , also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain () and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify "Cymbeline" as a romance or even a comedy. Like "Othello" and "The Winter's Tale", it deals with the themes of innocence and jealousy. While the precise date of composition remains unknown, the play was certainly produced as early as 1611.
Cymbeline | Introduction
1928.
Adolphe Menjou | Cultural references
("The greater part of it is so plainly sacrilegious that it cannot be reproduced.") In 1929, Cole Porter's song "After All, I'm Only a Schoolgirl" references Harris and "My Life and Loves", in a tale about a girl who is learning about adult relationships from a private tutor.
Frank Harris | Cultural references
Duckworthy had what seemed a similar experience - but Wimsey eventually proves that it had a rational explanation involving no supernatural agency).
The Student of Prague (1913 film) | References in popular culture
In spite of these arguments, most editions of the play have continued to use the name Imogen, and it has been suggested that "Imogen" may be intended to evoke the figure of "Innogen" but that the slight change in name is deliberate, as there are other characters in the play whose names appear to be slight variants of historical or pseudo-historical figures. However the prophecy interpretation at the end appears to support an -m- based name, rather than -nn- based one. Milford Haven is not known to have been used during the period (early 1st century AD) in which "Cymbeline" is set, and it is not known why Shakespeare used it in the play.
Cymbeline | Date and text
Cymbeline Refinished (1937) is a play-fragment by George Bernard Shaw in which he writes a new final act to Shakespeare's play "Cymbeline". The drama follows from Shaw's longstanding need to reimagine Shakespeare's work, epitomised by his play "Caesar and Cleopatra" and his late squib "Shakes versus Shav".
Cymbeline Refinished | Introduction
The most famous Shakespearean allusion is the debunking one by Rosalind, in Act IV scene I of "As You Like It": "Both robbed of air, we both lie in one ground," "Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drowned".
Hero and Leander | Cultural references
After altering the ending, Shaw changed his mind about the bulk of the play, but remained convinced that the last act was a disaster, writing in 1946 that it was "one of the finest of Shakespeare's later plays" but "goes to pieces in the final act".
Cymbeline Refinished | Creation
Unless otherwise specified, all citations of "Macbeth" refer to Muir (1984), and of other works of Shakespeare refer to Wells and Taylor (2005).
Cultural references to Macbeth | Citations
She concludes that she has lost sight of who she once was. At this moment, she is aware that she will never be fully accepted in English society. Despite the friendships made while studying abroad, there will always be people who stare at her and question her upbringing and race.
Yoruba Girl Dancing | Cultural references
These many intertwined players will travel through desperate straits before all is resolved.
Cymbeline (film) | Synopsis
Similarities between Cymbeline and historical accounts of the Roman Emperor Augustus have prompted critics to interpret the play as Shakespeare voicing support for the political motions of James I, who considered himself the "British Augustus." His political manoeuvres to unite Scotland with England and Wales as an empire mirror Augustus' "Pax Romana." The play reinforces the Jacobean idea that Britain is the successor to the civilised virtue of ancient Rome, portraying the parochialism and isolationism of Cloten and the Queen as villainous. Other critics have resisted the idea that "Cymbeline" endorses James I's ideas about national identity, pointing to several characters' conflicted constructions of their geographic identities.
Cymbeline | British identity
The name associates it with the ancient British king Cunobeline (Cymbeline), although this may be a Victorian invention. (There is also a theory that the nearby villages of Great Kimble, Little Kimble and Kimble Wick are named after Cymbeline; however, this has been discredited, as the etymology of Kimble is a description of the hill rather than a name.)
Cymbeline's Castle | Introduction
Cunobeline appears in British legend as Cynfelyn (Welsh), Kymbelinus (medieval Latin) or Cymbeline, as in the play by William Shakespeare.
Cunobeline | Introduction
The sketch made various cultural references including Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe", Tony Orlando and Dawn's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", "Dixie", "Camptown Races", Chicken of the Sea " A Streetcar Named Desire", and tuna casserole.
Went with the Wind! | Cultural references
In both cases, the great evil is defeated through an act of "love."
In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela | Cultural references
A character in Frances Hodgson Burnett's "Piccino and Other Child Stories" (1894) is partially based on Helena.
Helena, comtesse de Noailles | Cultural references
Carrickmines is mentioned in James Joyce's novel "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", in which it is described as an area dominated by fields.
Carrickmines | Cultural references
He asks if it is an episode of "The Bickersons"...until he realizes otherwise, and hastily leaves.
The Bickersons | Adaptations and cultural references
Of Lloyd George he wrote: "The power of his rhetoric amazed me."
Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion | Cultural references
In the 1948 film "I de lyse nætter", Christianelyst was used as the house where Linda Strand (Tove Maës) lives.
Christianelyst | Cultural references
In the novel "The Once and Future King", by T.H. White, a reference is made that states "before King Arthur had made his chivalry, the Knight of the Tower Landry had been compelled to warn his daughter against entering her own dining hall in the evening unaccompanied – for fear of what might happen in the dark corners". In the novel "Timeline", by Michael Crichton, a reference is made which states
Geoffroy IV de la Tour Landry | Cultural references
The play consists of actors and different settings as it focuses on a war ravaged people and seeks to reinvent the course of the nation for a better development through arts and literature.
Cymbeline (South Sudan Theatre Company) | Overview
When discovered (dressed as a young man) embracing the corpse, she dissembles by inventing the imaginary "du Champ", referring to him as "a very valiant Briton and a good", calling herself his devoted servant. For this reason the name is typically interpreted as an affectionate compliment to Field.
Richard Field (printer) | "Cymbeline"
For example, although Guiderius and Arviragus are the sons of Cymbeline, a British king raised in Rome, they grew up in a Welsh cave. The brothers lament their isolation from society, a quality associated with barbarousness, but Belarius, their adoptive father, retorts that this has spared them from corrupting influences of the supposedly civilised British court. Iachimo's invasion of Imogen's bedchamber reflects concern that Britain was being maligned by Italian influence. As noted by Peter A. Parolin, "Cymbeline’s" scenes ostensibly set in ancient Rome are in fact anachronistic portrayals of sixteenth-century Italy, which was characterised by contemporary British authors as a place where vice, debauchery, and treachery had supplanted the virtue of ancient Rome.
Cymbeline | British identity
In other cases, such as "Camille" (1936), "Cabaret" (1972), and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), the original stage dialogue is completely discarded and an entirely new script is written for the film version, even if the basic plot of the play is still followed. This has also happened with musical films such as the 1936 and 1954 film versions of "Rose-Marie", the 1943 and 1953 versions of "The Desert Song", and the 1954 version of "The Student Prince". In the case of the 1936 "Rose-Marie", the plot of the film had almost nothing to do with the stage version, other than using a very few of the stage version's songs, having a Canadian setting, and having Mounties as characters.
Stage-to-film adaptation | Problems with stage-to-film adaptations
The Duke told me that he had seen it—Lord Bathurst having lent it him many years ago." This conversation took place on 12 October 1839.
Magdalene De Lancey | Cultural references
The film is mentioned in an episode of Dad's Army, 'No Spring for Frazer', when several of the characters are breaking into a house.
Raffles (1930 film) | Cultural References
Using Samuel Leve's original designs, they reconstructed the set for "Julius Caesar" on the Gaiety's stage. Then Mr. Linklater filmed some 15 minutes' worth of scenes from the play, lit according to Jean Rosenthal's plot, accompanied by Marc Blitzstein's original incidental music and staged in a style as close to that of the 1937 production as is now possible." Teachout wrote that he "was floored by the verisimilitude of the results".
Comedy Theatre (New York City) | Cultural references
The art gallery in the basement, then Gallerie Toulouse, was used as a location in the 1961 film "Een blandt mange".
Brolæggerstræde 2 | Cultural references
Oscar Wilde alludes to Imogen in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" when Dorian describes Sibyl Vane, the actress he is infatuated with. 'It must be, if you say it. And now I am off. Imogen is waiting for me. Don't forget about tomorrow. Good-bye.'(Ch. IV) Stephen Dedalus alludes to Imogen in "Ulysses", referring to the episode in which Iachomo observes the mole on her breast: "Ravisher and ravished, what he would, but would not, go with him from Lucrece's bluecircled ivory globes to Imogen's breast, bare, with its mole cinquespotted."
Imogen (Cymbeline) | Literary allusions
Paradoxically Shaw offered his own alternative ending as challenge to producers to restore Shakespeare's original, which had been crudely cut in many productions. The act is written in blank verse, but C.B. Young notes that there is "a violent change of tone from the fairy-tale and romantic atmosphere of the original acts to the Shavian wit with a touch of cynicism, of the end." Bernard F. Dukore says that "Shaw's refinishing of "Cymbeline"'s last act reveals such features of Shavian comedy as his typical treatment of exposition; his focus, not on the resolution of a situation, but on the response of the characters to that resolution; and broad comedy with a realistic base."
Cymbeline Refinished | Critical views
The opera is set in 1968 on the United States–Mexican border and borrows elements from Cinthio's tale, Shakespeare's play, and Verdi's opera.
Cultural references to Othello | In opera
The 1934 ballet "Bar aux Folies-Bergère" with choreography by Ninette de Valois and music of Chabrier was created from, and based around, Manet's painting. The 1947 film "The Private Affairs of Bel Ami" faithfully references "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" twenty nine minutes into the film with a look-alike actress, set and props as the main characters enter the establishment. The painting was the inspiration of a song (possibly by Sydney Carter) in the popular theatre production "The Lyric Revue", in London in 1951. The refrain went "Oh, how I long to be Back in my dear Brittany ... But fate has chosen me For the bar at the Folies-Bergères".
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère | Cultural references
The following cultural references are made in the episode:
Ahoy, Mateys! | Cultural references
— Ohio! the editor crowed in high treble from his uplifted scarlet face. My Ohio! — A perfect cretic! the professor said. Long, short and long. "Ulysses", James Joyce.
Cretic | Cultural references
The film was spoofed in "Mad" magazine in 1975 as "The Tommy-Red Seed".
The Tamarind Seed | Cultural references
The word appears in the "Major-General's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera, "The Pirates of Penzance", in which Major-General Stanley sings, "... In fact, when I know what is meant by mamelon and ravelin ..."
Mamelon (fort) | Cultural references
The Plot of Cymbeline now is recognized as the local group performed it in London called the South Sudan Theatre Company that has rejuvenated the Film and acts of drama sector in the world`s smallest country.. Part of the 'Globe to Globe' programme of 37 plays in 37 languages, the SSTC's Cymbeline is heavy with historical and political parallels and seeks to address national matters of concern that can help small and developing countries learn the example. The plot is being explained and acted upon and the people responsible take the setting and pick their characters such that they can showcase the drama to the available audience that are watching and listening while picking a lesson or two to learn from.
Cymbeline (South Sudan Theatre Company) | Origin
The play was written "as a lark" after the committee of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre were looking for a way to market a staging of "Cymbeline" as part of a plan to fund a memorial to Shakespeare. The ending of "Cymbeline" had been ridiculed in the nineteenth century, but the play was just beginning to be reconsidered as an "experimental romance". Shaw was consciously engaging in a long tradition of rewriting Shakespeare for modern values and tastes. Shaw had expressed the standard Victorian view of the play in 1896 when he wrote that it was "stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order".
Cymbeline Refinished | Creation
In one scene, Marie says to Morgan, "I'm hard to get, Steve. All you have to do is ask me." This quote came from the earlier 1939 Hawks film "Only Angels Have Wings" in which Jean Arthur says to Cary Grant, "I'm hard to get, Geoff. All you have to do is ask me."
To Have and Have Not (film) | Cultural references
The area has been inhabited since Greek and Phoenician times. during the Roman era it was called "Cymbe".
Donnalucata | History
The lesbians' fight against the Persians, with Mrs. Garrison kicking the messenger, Rauf Xerxes's physical appearance, and a plethora of slow-motion sequences, are references to the Zack Snyder film "300". The film that is parodied, 300, portrays the defense of the Greek city-states by Spartan warriors at the Battle of Thermopylae. The bar "Les Bos" can be compared to the Greek island of Lesbos, from which the word Lesbian is derived. It is also a take on the closings of gay bars across the United States.
D-Yikes! | Cultural references
The village of Charlcombe is mentioned in letters by Jane Austen as being "sweetly situated in a little green valley, as a village with such a name ought to be".
Charlcombe | Reference in literature
The first recorded production of "Cymbeline", as noted by Simon Forman, was in April 1611. It was first published in the "First Folio" in 1623. When "Cymbeline" was actually written cannot be precisely dated. The Yale edition suggests a collaborator had a hand in the authorship, and some scenes (e.g., Act III scene 7 and Act V scene 2) may strike the reader as particularly un-Shakespearean when compared with others. The play shares notable similarities in language, situation, and plot with Beaumont and Fletcher's tragicomedy "Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding" (). Both plays concern themselves with a princess who, after disobeying her father in order to marry a lowly lover, is wrongly accused of infidelity and thus ordered to be murdered, before escaping and having her faithfulness proven.
Cymbeline | Date and text
Furthermore, both were written for the same theatre company and audience. Some scholars believe this supports a dating of approximately 1609, though it is not clear which play preceded the other.The editors of the Oxford and Norton Shakespeare believe the name of Imogen is a misprint for Innogen—they draw several comparisons between "Cymbeline" and "Much Ado About Nothing", in early editions of which a ghost character named Innogen was supposed to be Leonato's wife (Posthumus being also known as "Leonatus", the Latin form of the Italian name in the other play). Stanley Wells and Michael Dobson point out that Holinshed's "Chronicles", which Shakespeare used as a source, mention an Innogen and that Forman's eyewitness account of the April 1611 performance refers to "Innogen" throughout.
Cymbeline | Date and text
The play was adapted to film in 1915 and 1920.
Young Mrs. Winthrop (play) | Adaptations
When Walter refuses to get out of the car to enter a supermarket, he mentions he is "learning to appreciate cowardice" and that "the lion had a point", a reference, he explains to Peter, about the cowardly lion from "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). Walter also mentions flying monkeys and talking lions later in the episode, both also homages to the movie. Later, Walter excitedly says he remembers someone who played the banjo and looked like the kidnapped, deformed boy, and starts humming a tune. Peter completes the tune and explains it is from the movie "Deliverance" (1972), which depicts murderous, inbred, and deformed people living in rural Georgia.
Johari Window (Fringe) | Cultural references
After the 1611 performance mentioned by Simon Forman, there is no record of production until 1634, when the play was revived at court for Charles I and Henrietta Maria. The Caroline production was noted as being "well likte by the kinge." In 1728 John Rich staged the play with his company at Lincoln's Inn Fields, with emphasis placed on the spectacle of the production rather than the text of the play. Theophilus Cibber revived Shakespeare's text in 1744 with a performance at the Haymarket. There is evidence that Cibber put on another performance in 1746, and another in 1758. In 1761, David Garrick edited a new version of the text.
Cymbeline | Performance history
This pun is repeated in Shakespeare's play "Cymbeline", where the etymology is discussed.
Sonnet 1 | Quatrain 1
Another deviation is the comparative delay in the murder: Shakespeare's protagonists murder Duncan early in the play, but more than half of the film has passed by the time Nimmi and Miyan kill Abbaji.
Cultural references to Macbeth | Twenty-first century
It has been adapted many times to the stage, film, and television.
Louisa May Alcott | Introduction
There is no direct evidence for a connection between Shakespeare and Field after 1601, but an indirect connection exists in a reference in Shakespeare's "Cymbeline", believed to have been written around 1610. In IV,ii,377 of that play, Imogen gives the decapitated corpse of Cloten the name "Richard du Champ," French for Richard Field. (When printing Spanish texts, Field called himself "Ricardo del Campo.") Shakespeare's reason for giving his friend and colleague's name to the headless corpse of a villain is a matter of speculation. However, at this point in the play Imogen believes the body to be that of her husband Posthumus.
Richard Field (printer) | "Cymbeline"
The harebell is dedicated to Saint Dominic. In 2002 Plantlife named it the county flower of Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. William Shakespeare makes a reference to 'the azured hare-bell' in Cymbeline:
Campanula rotundifolia | In culture
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Gwendoline (opera) | References
When Pierce walks in with his hair slicked and dressed in suspenders, Troy asks him why he "looks like a wealthy murderer." This is a nod to American Psycho's titular character, Patrick Bateman, whose attire bears similarities to Pierce's. Andre's proposal to Shirley where he sings and dances with a troupe is a reference to R&B group Boyz II Men. In his proposal he says, "I have loved you since there was a Soviet Union and only one Damon Wayans." When Jeff suggests using a Webster's Dictionary definition to start his wedding toast, Annie calls it the "Jim Belushi of openings: it accomplishes nothing, but everyone keeps on using it, and no one knows why."
Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts | Cultural references
We have a very diverse crew, and everyone understood what was happening, that it was a period piece, and it was not pleasurable for anyone. It was so well established that this was a part of the framework of that time, and it was so clear that we were criticizing it, but we had to live through doing it to criticize it.”
My Old Kentucky Home (Mad Men) | Cultural references
Abed and Troy compared Pierce's offer to "buy" their handshake to a similar deal in "Indecent Proposal". Dean Pelton compared his self-proclaimed father figure role to the horror film "Children of the Corn". The background music/wailing whilst Britta checks Shirley's dilation is from the Monolith scenes of "".
Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts | Cultural references
Her likely most famous role was the crossdressing role in Cymbeline, which she performed the first time i the New Theatre in Annapolis in 1770. She returned to Great Britain in 1773.
Nancy Hallam | Life
As a means of underlining Jack's distaste for sex, Potter borrows his character's name from the cobbler in Dylan Thomas' "Under Milk Wood" (1954); in Thomas' poem, Black finds the sexual habits of the young couples in the eponymous Welsh town disgusting and dreams of frightening them. The references to "The Wizard of Oz" (both the film and the original book) underline the central theme of both Potter's play and Frank Baum's Oz stories, which are often viewed as satires for "glitzy commercialism" and the American Dream.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road | Cultural references
The artist is Shakespear's sister."
A Room of One's Own | Adaptations and cultural references
In William Shakespeare’s play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" he refers to woodbine/honeysuckle twice: It seems probable that the first quotation is referring to the honeysuckle "L. periclymenum", a common sight in hedgerows in Shakespeare’s time. The second quotation is somewhat more confusing. It is thought that on this occasion, "woodbine" refers to a species of "Convolvulus", also very common but nowadays called "bindweed".
Lonicera periclymenum | Cultural references
"Jarndyce and Jarndyce" was used as the name of a bank in the 1996 television film "The Treasure Seekers".
Jarndyce and Jarndyce | Cultural references
Suk never used the piano to show off; he made it the servant of Liszt’s expressive ideas” (Toronto Star).
Mykola Suk | Cultural references
The full length play's conflict centres about the Queensland shearers' strike of 1891.
Barcaldine, Queensland | Cultural references
The houseboy became a plot device or stock character in literature and film.
Houseboy | Cultural references
Jonathan Littell's novel "The Kindly Ones" is structured in different parts, each one of these named after a Baroque dance, the last part being called "Gigue".
Gigue | Cultural references
Given Broyard's stature in the literary world and discussions about his life after his death, numerous literary critics, such as Michiko Kakutani, Janet Maslin, Lorrie Moore, Charles Taylor, Touré, and Brent Staples, have made comparisons between the character Coleman Silk in Philip Roth's "The Human Stain" (2000) and Broyard.
Anatole Broyard | Cultural references
Based on the play "Cymbeline" by William Shakespeare, the story revolves around a war between dirty cops and a biker gang. The king of the bikers has lost his sons and needs his daughter to marry royalty to maintain the bloodline. The new Queen wishes to kill the king and her step-daughter in order to install her own son as the new gang leader. The step-daughter has married a penniless gang member, who is banished from the gang territory by the King. The banished son-in-law is tricked into believing that his wife is unfaithful through a photograph taken while she was sleeping.
Cymbeline (film) | Synopsis
There are several works about Falstaff, inspired by Shakespeare's plays:
John Falstaff | Cultural adaptations
The subplot of Belarius and the lost princes was inspired by the story of Bomelio, an exiled nobleman in "The Rare Triumphs" who is later revealed to be the protagonist's father.
Cymbeline | Sources
Classical music was subject to heckling during premieres, often degenerating into riots. The premiere of "The Rite of Spring" became particularly infamous for this.
Football Crazy (The Goodies) | Cultural references
The figure of Othello from the tragic play by William Shakespeare has appeared in many examples in art and culture since being authored by Shakespeare in the early 16th century.
Cultural references to Othello | Introduction
The Oval Sports Centre was used in the film, "Chariots of Fire", to portray the 1924 Colombes Olympic Stadium in Paris.
Bebington | Cultural references
Though "Cymbeline" concludes with a peace forged between Britain and Rome, Iachimo's corruption of Posthumus and metaphorical rape of Imogen demonstrate fears that Britain's political union with other cultures might expose Britons to harmful foreign influences.
Cymbeline | British identity
In a twist on Shakespeare's ending, the tyrant (having witnessed Spiderweb Forest come to Spiderweb Castle) is killed by volleys of arrows from his own archers after they come to the realization he also lied about the identity of their former master's murderer.
Cultural references to Macbeth | Twentieth century
Numerous cultural references to "Hamlet" (in film, literature, arts, etc.) reflect the continued influence of this play. "Hamlet" is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, topping the list at the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1879, as of 2004.
Cultural references to Hamlet | Introduction
"Clyomon and Clamydes" is thought to have had an influence on several of Shakespeare's plays. Most notably, Rosalind in "As You Like It" disguises herself in male clothing and flees courtly life for residence among simple shepherds—just as Neronis does in her play. In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", the playlet of the mechanicals in Act V bears a resemblance with "Clyomon and Clamydes", though in this case the resemblance is clearly in a spirit of parody. And the late romance "Cymbeline" bears a significant relationship with "Clyomon and Clamydes". Shakespeare uses a personified figure of Rumour as a Chorus at the start of "Henry IV, Part 2;" the same figure appears in "Clyomon and Clamydes".
Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes | Influence
"Cymbeline" was one of Shakespeare's more popular plays during the eighteenth century, though critics including Samuel Johnson took issue with its complex plot: William Hazlitt and John Keats, however, numbered it among their favourite plays. By the early twentieth century, the play had lost favour. Lytton Strachey found it "difficult to resist the conclusion that [Shakespeare] was getting bored himself. Bored with people, bored with real life, bored with drama, bored, in fact, with everything except poetry and poetical dreams." Harley Granville-Barker had similar views, saying that the play shows that Shakespeare was becoming a "wearied artist".
Cymbeline | Criticism and interpretation
The ship features in the 1964 Ken Russell film "French Dressing".
PS Medway Queen | Cultural References
The novel has been parodied or used as source material in a variety of media, such as films, TV, stage works, literature, and games:
The Scarlet Pimpernel | Parodies and media references
The following list of plays including references to "Hamlet" is ordered alphabetically.
Cultural references to Hamlet | Plays