Cymbeline | Cymbeline
Cymbeline is the king of England. Imogen is his daughter by a former marriage, as are his two sons, Guiderius and Arviragus, who were abducted from him by Belarius when the two boys were just infants. His present queen has a son named Cloten, and she convinces Cymbeline that a marriage between Imogen and her son would be an expedient one. Politically, a marriage between Cloten and Imogen would make more sense than her marriage to Posthumus, who is an aristocrat but not a prince, since it would give the impression of a greatly consolidated Britain. But Imogen has, in fact, married Posthumus,...
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