CRITICISM

Gillies, John. “The Problem of Style in Cymbeline.” Southern Review 15, no. 3 (November 1982): 269-90.

Outlines alternative methods for reading, staging, and approaching Cymbeline.

Lawrence, William Witherle. “The Wager in Cymbeline.” In Shakespeare's Problem Comedies, pp. 174-205. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931.

Urges a more historically sensitive understanding of Cymbeline's Posthumus.

Marsh, Derrick R. C. “Cymbeline.” In The Recurring Miracle: A Study of Cymbeline and the Last Plays, pp. 25-124. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1980.

Examines the first three acts of Cymbeline, compares the play to Shakespeare's other romances, and provides a detailed examination of Imogen.

Parolin, Peter A. “Anachronistic Italy: Cultural Alliances and National Identity in Cymbeline.” Shakespeare Studies 30 (2002): 188-215.

Posits that Cymbeline presents an image of Jacobean Britain as an advanced culture by appropriating models of Roman civilization.

Sheen, Erica. “‘The Agent for his Master’: Political Service and Professional Liberty in Cymbeline.” In The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After, edited by Gordon McMullan and Jonathan Hope, pp. 55-76. London and New York: Routledge, 1992.

Argues that Cymbeline demonstrates Shakespeare's independence from the political imperatives of his time, a view that conflicts with historicist readings of the play.

Simonds, Peggy Muñoz. Myth, Emblem, and Music in Shakespeare's Cymbeline: An Iconographic Reconstruction. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992, 539 p.

Studies the iconography—the imagery and symbolic representations—in Cymbeline.

Woodbridge, Linda. “Palisading the Elizabethan Body Politic.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 33, no. 3 (fall 1991): 327-54.

Examines Cymbeline and other plays by Shakespeare in order to prove that the human body—especially women's bodies—were used to symbolize society and culture during the Elizabethan age.