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Imogen in Cymbeline - (The Tragedy of Cymbeline, King of Britain) by Henry Courtney Selous
#henry courtney selous#art#imogen#innogen#cymbeline#princess#britain#british#shakespeare#william shakespeare#ancient britain#matter of britain#celtic#king#cunobeline#antiquity#roman#roman britain#england#wales#rome#tragedy#europe#european#play#plays#cassell's illustrated shakespeare#victorian
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i know on a lot of levels cymbeline is not shakespeare's best play but i literally cannot get over it. cannot get over the magic of the plot and the characters. cannot get over imogen, the most central character of the play by far. the true heroine. there is no obvious second most significant character in the play to me. there's posthumus and iachamo and cloten and her brothers who are by far more significant than the titular king even is. it's about imogen baby it's always about imogen
#im not being coherent right now ive had a really hard week but i reread cymbeline and im glad i did#the WHOLE THING is just worth it#i havent reread an entire play by shakespeare in a long time. not since a midsummer night's dream when i was a teenager#bc whenever i wanted to reexperience a play id look for an adaptation or a recording or something#id try to experience it in a new way but cymbeline was just so good i just had to. well. i had to reread it#solitary and silently as the first time i experienced it and i feel like i reabsorbed it in a way that was just as rewarding if not more#as the first time i read it#beautiful. i love imogen#shakespeare#cymbeline#text post
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Follow up:
#shakespeare#polls#I did this by going play by play through the ones I’ve read#and I’m sorry but NOBODY in Macbeth could build ikea furniture half-competently#actually the same is true for a lot of plays#not a single person in Cymbeline could be trusted with a toolbox#I’m sorry Imogen but you’re just too unhinged for that#the Antony & cleopatra furniture would look cool but be completely non functional#nobody in Richard iii is allowed to use a screwdriver either#holy shit most Shakespeare characters should be banned from IKEA#my justification for hermia and Lysander is that U-Haul lesbians can do anything#Don Pedro is also a bit iffy but I think he’d be able to put the chaos aside and do a decent job
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N.M. Price - Imogen sleeping (from Shakespeare's 'Cymbeline').
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I ponder what she'd want from me— I know one part is wit, which I possess, debatably; I stole her store of it. But what else of my character? To be an Imogen the men would have me—artless, pure, beneath a father's pen. I don't think I'd be so unwise to be cast in her play, to move before that woman's eyes as I do anyway— But they are drooped. She is long-dead and so are many more. I pluck hairs from her resting bed and other corpses for my wicked, hoary majesties, my poems, mortal, light— look all around these lines. The breeze breathes dust through storied sight. Look for romantic ingenues, and you may painted find their flesh embalmed, with added hues that never crossed a mind. My eyes come not from Cymbeline— the eagle plucked them out. I found some pearls, incarnadine dyed in my husband's doubt. I ponder—do I do enough for women with my arts? Stroll through their graves, unpack their stuff, dissect their carrion hearts, decayed and crumbling in my palms— do I do right by them? Past undegrading them with balms, I paste on pomp and gem.
—"Do It for Her (Self-Aggrandizing Self-Portrait as Imogen)" - a poem written 2/16/2024
#2024#iambic meter#common meter#iambic tetrameter#iambic trimeter#iambic heptameter#fourteeners#quatrains#form poetry#poem#poets on tumblr#cymbeline#imogen#shakespeare#women in literature#shakespeare heroines#romances#ballad#romanticism#i was actually thinking of aphra behn when i started this poem#i don't normally like to explain my abstractions but. this one was a lot of fun to write#i don't enjoy writing my poems enough anymore. i'm not nearly as self-indulgent as i ought to be#the idea of the canon and unaddressed wronged/otherwise overlooked women in literature (real and fictional)#is a fascination of mine. and that certainly fits aphra behn's works#and also mary 'perdita' robinson 'the english sappho' a biography about whom ive been reading lately#and i just keep thinking about imogen. i read cymbeline recently. and BOY do i love the romances. but imogen#poor imogen. she really goes through it#the innocence of shakespeare's heroines in the romances is really striking. in an oeuvre that otherwise has so many wise capable women#of various ages/positions in society. the heroines in the romances all have an innocence and sincerity to them#and they take what awful fates befall them in stride. and the justice of the universe eventually gets them out of it
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they had pointless on at the gym and a woman called imogen had to name a shakespeare play’s title containing letter “d” or “l” and she did not choose CYMBELINE. a silly little fool!
#as an imogen it is your duty to say CYMBELINE at all times#i did it at university and loved it like wow i am the main character .....#personal
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i love all these new shakespeare productions that just make everything gay. coolest thing ever
#shakespeare#lgbtq#lgbtqia#lgbt#just saw a henry iv where hal is played by a trans dude and is in a relationship with poins#saw a cymbeline where imogens nb last year#just mwah#loons toons
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has Cymbeline (the Shakespeare play) come up before? Princess Imogen secretly marries her love Posthumus Leonatus, an orphan who was adopted and raised within the king's family. meanwhile, her stepmother plots to marry her to the mom's shitty son from a prev relationship, Cloten (I's stepbrother). lots of stuff happens, including Cloten trying to kill Posthumus so he can abduct/marry Imogen (he dies--good). ask 1/2 bc there's more deets
Cymbeline 2/2: Cloten was killed by one of 2 friends Imogen made along the way, Guiderius and Arviragus. Well, it turns out they're long-lost sons of the king, making them Imogen's biological brothers! This is great for Imogen, bc since she isn't the only bio successor to her dad, she's free to be with her true love (and adoptive brother) Posthumus. And her cruel stepmother is outed for being, well, cruel. all's well that ends well? (3/3 bc i'm an idiot) I neglected to mention that there's an undertone with Guiderius and Arviragus's relationship with their sister when they meet her, not knowing they're siblings. Imogen is disguised as a boy named Fidele (bc this is Shakespeare and we can't have Shakespeare without gender fuckery and queer undertones) and her brothers are so intrigued by "him" in a way that's easily read as homoerotic. I lowkey ship them and Posthumus in a weird messy polycule, even if it doesn't make sense
I'm not familiar with Cymbeline. It's really keeping it in the family, isn't?
Thanks for the deets, Anon!
#asks#first post#commentary#brother and sister adopted#cymbeline#canon#imogen and posthumus#cloten and imogen
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cmon tumblr please tell me at least ONE of you has also had posthumus/iachimo thoughts
#shakespeare#cymbeline#posthumus#iachimo#i’m genuinely surprised that i haven’t seen any posts about them. their dynamic as potential partners. DO YOU SEE MY VISION#au where iachimo has to seduce posthumus instead of imogen WHEN#might write it myself actually
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one sand another / not more resembles that sweet rosy lad / who died, and was fidele.
imogen sketches!!! she has bewitched me body and soul.....
#is the fidele hair more dw or dora the explorer sound off#also ft. wimogen (wimple imogen)#society if i could draw about cymbeline... but alas.. i must post#i tried to give her a swelling eye after posthumus hits her but now i'm thinking a bloody nose would be fun??#imogen#cymbeline#my art#my posts#sowwwy she looks twelve btw i learned to draw from manga art books and also she is baby
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Pleasantly surprised by all the Winter's Tale love! I thought no one knew that play except for the bear thing.
Asked a non-shakesgeek friend for a zeitgeist check and got this
followed by a whole rant about how Leontes should've fucked off and died. It was great.
Sorry it's not in alphabetical order but I can't easily rearrange the options and I have a life to live
#'strange drug trip' is a great description for many shakesplays tbh#shakespeare#tumblr polls#in retrospect I would've put Cymbeline over TWT since I did know the latter had some name recognition#I'm so sorry Imogen how dare I forget you
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Shakespeare at the end of one of his romances: And the lost princess... is returned Me, every single time: [gasps] Oh my God the lost princess is returned
#THANK GOD SHE'S BACK!!!!!!#for the sake of not jumbling up phrasing im gonna pretend miranda is a princess. may as well be#chat#text post#shakespeare#romances#I LOVE THE ROMANCES!!!!!! THIS BLOG SUPPORTS TRAGICOMEDY#miranda#the tempest#perdita#the winter's tale#imogen#cymbeline#marina#thaisa#pericles#pericles prince of tyre#YOUR TROPES WILL NEVER TIRE ME!!!!!!! I LOVE BELIEVING IN MAGIC AND LOVE AND THE JUSTICE OF THE UNIVERSE RESETTING ALL THINGS RIGHT
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Shakespeare Tourney, Round 1
(summaries from shakespeare.org.uk; further summaries and propaganda encouraged)
Cymbeline: Imogen's fidelity is questioned, everyone puts on some sort of disguise, revelations abound at the end, and only one person dies.
Titus Andronicus: Tamora plans false incrimination, rape, murder, and mutilation. Titus plans murder and cannibalism. This is not a happy play.
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Shakespeare's Cymbeline obviously has some story elements in common with Snow White. A princess heroine, a wicked queen stepmother, a servant is ordered to kill the princess but instead lets her go, she finds the home of some men in the wilderness and lives with them, but then she succumbs to "poison" from her stepmother and is mourned as dead, yet she isn't really dead, and eventually there's a happy ending.
In the play, the character of Belarius, the foster father who takes Imogen in (and whose foster sons turn out to be her long-lost brothers), goes by the pseudonym Morgan.
In the Let's Pretend radio adaptation of Snow White (or rather Snowdrop, as it's called), the leader of the seven dwarfs, basically a more dignified version of Disney's Doc, is named Morgan.
I see what you did there, Nila Mack. I see what you did there.
#william shakespeare#cymbeline#snow white#fairy tale#let's pretend#radio#nila mack#literary allusion#shout out to shakespeare
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two dumb questions: 1) how many characters in the tragedies kill their partners (homoerotic nemeses do count in this case) and 2 (the more important one)) are there enough to write a parody of the cell block tango
I don't know how long ago I got this, and I feel like the asker probably needed an answer fast! But I still like the question!
But I don't think there are many!
Othello killing Desdemona in OTHELLO. She's dead for real and I hate it.
2. Richard III killing Anne in RICHARD III. Bastard.
3. Aufidius killing Martius in CORIOLANUS
4.) Claudius accidentally poisoning Gertrude in HAMLET (while trying to poison someone else).
5). Iago killing Emilia in OTHELLO. Emilia's fantastic!!! I hate it!!!!
6). Posthuman sends a literal assassin after innocent Imogen in CYMBELINE. He's lucky the assassin changes his mind and warns her!! He went a step even further than Leontes, but like Leontes, he his romantic partner lived. Speaking of....
THE UN-SPECIAL MURDEROUS MENTIONS :
Leontes comes awfully close in THE WINTER'S TALE to killing Hermione! Fortunately, he's able to hold himself back, putting her on trial instead of an actual assassin. She lives!!! It's OK!!!! I actually like Leontes, in the end!
In many RICHARD II productions, Aumerle kills Richard. The murderer in the play, Exton, comes out of nowhere at the final second, and it's kind of a letdown. Whereas Aumerle disappears after trying to put teh King (with whom he also has a homoerotic connection), and then being forced to swear loyalty to Henry IV. So it's much more compelling if he does it!
Lucrece Killing Tarquin IN the THE RAPE OF LUCRECE (one of the narrative poems). He saw her as a romantic interest. He's her rapist, and she does not see him that way. She kills him!!. It's a well-deserved, satisfying moment. That could do interesting things in a CELL BLOCK TANGO parody!
More than I thought, actually! Enough to do a CELL BLOCK TANGO parody even without the Un-Special Mentions, if you include Posthumus on "attempted". Oh, damn, now I hope someone does it....
#daily snack#william shakespeare#shakespeare#hamlet#shakespeare couples#shakespeare's tragedies#shakespeare's histories#asks
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