Queen Cymbeline

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A dramatic monologue sonnet for the Queen in Cymbeline – full text below: click Show More. Others at • Exfoliation • Posthumus Leonatus is banished from Britain when his secret marriage to Imogen, daughter of King Cymbeline, is discovered. While abroad, he becomes convinced of Imogen’s infidelity, unaware that the evidence is false. • He rejects his wife, while secretly ordering his servant Pisanio to murder her. Pisanio reveals the plot to Imogen and she escapes to Wales disguised as a boy. • She is pursued by Cloten, unintelligent son of Cymbeline’s new Queen, who herself exhibits almost fairy-tale deceit and wickedness, and has already tried to poison Imogen. • Cloten is killed, various deceptions are unmasked, Imogen and Posthumus are reunited and orders are given for the still unnamed Queen to be arrested. • Queen • Yes, yes, I’ll tell you what you want – confess, • if that’s the word will please. I do • not love the king. What’s there to love? How true • he’s been to me, I’ll let you guess. • As for his precious daughter she has been • a thorn in his side just as much as mine • Succession is the game we play. Which line • goes down in history. Tell me, what queen • alive would not do as I’ve done to see • her issue crowned. Else what’s the point? • And Cloten’s all I’ve ever loved. Anoint • another and you disinherit me. • Well then. If he is lost, then so am I • and you’re too late to sentence me to die.

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