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Chicago Theater Review: SHAKESPEARE'S CYMBELINE: A FOLK TALE WITH MUSIC (First Folio) by Lawrence Bommer

A LONG HIKE IN THE THEM THAR HILLS OF SHAKESPEARE Along with its companion piece The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare's late-blooming "romance" Cymbeline is usually treated as a fairy tale. Rightly so, as it abounds in surprises, reversals and restorations.  Minus any realistic causation and motivation, their pell-mell plots are packed with improbable events — inexplicable [...]

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:15AM on June 23, 2013

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