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correction required, especially in those parts of the play that were typeset by “Compositor E,” the least competent man in the printing house. The heroine is called “Innogen” in both Holinshed’s
Chronicles
and Simon Forman’s notes on seeing the play; this name also appears in
Much Ado About Nothing
(as well as in works by contemporaries such as Thomas Heywood and Michael Drayton). “Imogen” did not exist as a name at this time and, besides, the heroines of Shakespeare’s late plays are given symbolic names (Marina = from the sea; Perdita = the lost one; Miranda = cause for admiration; hence Innogen = innocent one). All this very strongly suggests that Folio’s “Imogen” was a minim scribal or compositorial error for “Innogen,” so we have corrected accordingly.

CYMBELINE

LIST OF PARTS
    CYMBELINE , King of Britain
    INNOGEN , his daughter by a former queen, later disguised as Fidele
    QUEEN , his second wife
    CLOTEN , her son, Cymbeline’s stepson
    POSTHUMUS Leonatus, husband to Innogen
    PISANIO , his servant
    CORNELIUS , a doctor
    LADY attendant on Innogen, named Helen
    Two LORDS attendant on Cloten
    Two GENTLEMEN
    Two British CAPTAINS
    Two JAILERS
    BELARIUS , a banished lord, living in Wales under the name Morgan
    Cymbeline’s sons, known as sons of Belarius called Polydore and Cadwal
    GUIDERIUS
    ARVIRAGUS
    PHILARIO , an Italian, Posthumus’ host in Rome
    IACHIMO , an Italian nobleman, friend to Philario
    A FRENCHMAN
    A Dutchman
    A Spaniard
    Caius LUCIUS , general of the Roman army
    SOOTHSAYER , named Philharmonus
    Two Roman SENATORS
    A Roman TRIBUNE
    A Roman CAPTAIN
    JUPITER
    Ghost of SICILIUS LEONATUS , Posthumus’ father
    Ghost of Posthumus’ MOTHER
    Ghosts of Posthumus’ two BROTHERS
    Lords, Attendants, Messengers, Musicians, Roman Tribunes, British and Roman Captains, Soldiers

TEXTUAL NOTES
    F = First Folio text of 1623
    F2 = a correction introduced in the Second Folio text of 1632
    F3 = a correction introduced in the Third Folio text of 1663–64
    Ed = a correction introduced by a later editor
    SD = stage direction
    SH = speech heading (i.e. speaker’s name)
    List of parts = Ed
    1.1.1 SH FIRST GENTLEMAN = Ed. F = 1.
Gent, subsequently
1 3 king = Ed. F = Kings 4 SH SECOND GENTLEMAN = Ed. F = 2
Gent
,
subsequently
2 35 Cassibelan = F2. F =
Cassibulan
65 clothes the other , = Ed. F = cloathes, the other 78 SD
Exeunt = Ed. F =
Exeunt / Scena Secunda
SD
Innogen = Ed. F =
Imogen (throughout)
109 Philario’s = Ed. F =
Filorio’s
131 cere
spelled
seare
in
F
    Act 1 Scene 2 = Ed. F =
Scena Tertia
    1.2.1 SH FIRST LORD = Ed. F = 1 7 SH SECOND LORD = Ed. F = 2 9 thoroughfare = F3. F = thorough-fare
    Act 1 Scene 3 = Ed. F =
Scena Quarta
    Act 1 Scene 4 = Ed. F =
Scena Quinta
    1.4.24 Briton
spelled
Britaine
in
F 40 not = Ed.
Not in
F 64 Britain = Ed. F = Britanie 64 others I have = Ed. F = others. I haue 66 not but = Ed. F= not 74 purchase = Ed. F = purchases 113 thousand = F3. F = thousands 120 a friend = F.
Sometimes emended to
afraid
    Act 1 Scene 5 = Ed. F =
Scena Sexta
    1.5.84 SD
Exit Pisanio
printed one line earlier in
F
    Act 1 Scene 6 = Ed. F =
Scena Septima
    1.6.7 desire = F2. F = desires 26 trust = F.
Sometimes emended to
truest 29 takes = Ed. F = take 38 th’unnumbered = Ed. F = the number’d 67 Briton
spelled
Britaine
in
F 125 illustrous = Ed. F = illustrious 169 Solicit’st = Ed. F = Solicites 190 men’s = F2. F = men 192 descended = F2. F = defended
    2.1.6 SH FIRST LORD = Ed. F = 1
(throughout scene)
14 give = F2. F = gaue 25 your = Ed. F = you 32 tonight = F2. F = night 59 husband, than = Ed. F = Husband. Then 60 make! The = Ed. F = make the
    2.2.51 bare
spelled
beare
in
F
    2.3.24 SH CLOTEN = Ed.
Not in
F 25 vice = Ed. F = voyce 27 amend = F2F = amed 44 solicits = F2. F = solicity 107 cure = Ed. F = are 129 foil = F.
Sometimes emended to
soil 149 garment = F2. F = Garments 169 you = Ed. F = your
    2.4.7 seared hopes = Ed. F = fear’d hope 20 legions = Ed. F = Legion 26 mingled =