Audio recording of a lecture delivered on December 2, 2016, by Michael Grenke as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Grenke describes his lecture: "Shakespeare's Cymbeline has at its center a love story. Two young lovers marry without permission and against conventional expectations. The young lovers vow fidelity, as in many marriages, and profess themselves and their affections to be each other's exclusive property. This vow is challenged by a deceitful Italian, named Iachimo, who manufactures the appearance of infidelity. Remarkably, this Othello-like plot does not end in tragedy. Instead what ensues in this besieged love affair and in the surrounding events, which include an attempt by Britain to free itself from Roman rule, can be taken as a deep rumination on the possibilities and limits of human possession."
