Cymbeline pt.1 // A Jacobean play by Shakespeare // Shaketember 2024

Welcome to Shaketember 2024! Thank you for joining me. Whether you’re interested to know a bit more about Cymbeline and find out if it’s worth reading, or maybe you’ve read it already and can’t wait to have a discussion, I’m really glad you’re here.

In this video, I’m going to give a rough storyline of the first three Acts of Cymbeline and will come back in two weeks’ time with Cymbeline part 2, to discuss characters and themes in a bit more detail. So if you haven’t started reading it already, you have about two weeks in between. I’ll do the same thing for King Lear, which is the second play I chose for this year. I’ll talk about the storyline of Act 1 of King Lear next Saturday and discuss a couple of themes that have caught my attention, on the last Saturday. I’ll not spoil the ending of either story in part 1 videos.

Jason is discussing Titus Andronicus this week:
   • Varieties of Villainy in Titus Andron...  
Kelly’s video this week is on one of my favourite non-fiction on Shakespeare: 1606 The Year of Lear:
   • The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606...