The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship & emphasis on performance The series features line-by-line commentaries & textual notes on the plays & poems Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical stage & screen interpretations Edited & introduced by Martin Butler this first New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of Cymbeline takes full account of the critical & historical scholarship produced in the late twentieth century It foregrounds the romance tragicomedy & Jacobean stagecraft that shape the play & offers a refreshingly unsentimental reading of the heroine Innogen Butler pays greater attention than his predecessors to the politics of 1610 especially to questions of British union & nationhood He also offers a lively account of Cymbeline's stage history from 1610 to the present day The text has been edited from the 1623 Folio & features a detailed commentary on its linguistic & historical features