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Cymbeline
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Cymbeline (or Cunobelin) (lived 1st century AD)

King of the Catuvellauni (AD 5–40), who fought unsuccessfully against the Roman invasion of Britain. His capital was at Colchester.

Cymbeline

Play by Shakespeare, first acted about 1610 and printed in 1623. It combines various sources to tell the story of Imogen (derived from Ginevra in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron), the daughter of the legendary British king Cymbeline, who proves her virtue and constancy after several ordeals.



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