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Best Shakespeare productions: what's your favourite Cymbeline? by Michael Billington

The 2001 staging at Shakespeare's Globe, with Mark Rylance tackling a trio of roles, gave clarity to this convoluted playNot a play for rationalists. Dr Johnson wrote of its "unresisting imbecility" and Shaw dubbed it "stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order". But, although the play is an odd mish-mash of an ancient Britain, classical Rome and Renaissance Italy, it often works in the theatre…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:58am on May 7, 2014

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