This new edition of Shakespeare's Cymbeline considers the critical and
historical scholarship released in the late twentieth century. It
highlights the play's elements of romance, tragicomedy and Jacobean
stagecraft and acknowledges the postmodern indeterminacy of its key
moments. Martin Butler departs from the legacy of the sentimental
Victorian interpretation of the heroine, Innogen, and focuses on the
politics of 1610, especially regarding uestions of British union and
nationhood.