The tragedy I was looking for yesterday in Banksy for the Wimp: Shakespeare Edition was Cymbeline, the play about the legendary Celtic British king Cunobeline. By my count at least 6 characters in the play don on masks and pretend to be someone else at one point or the other. The only daughter of a king elopes with a courtier. Since her brothers were stolen as infants her husband would be heir to the throne. The king does not approve of his daughter’s choice and banishes her husband. At one point of time her husband then thinks to have proof that she has been unfaithful to him and sets a plot in motion that is meant to kill her. Her stepmother as well, who wants to see her son of an earlier marriage on the throne, decides to find a way to kill husband and stepdaughter. All these conspiracies manage is to bring the lost sons, their sister, and her husband together into a battle of the kingdom with an invading army and thus gather them ultimately in one room around the king. Many of them are in disguise and under assumed identities which they dispose of one by one as the different plots and intentions are uncovered in time to safe many lives.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:38:55 +0000
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