<p>This strange dark romance includes two songs composed by Shakespeare that are amongst the most beautiful in the English language.<br></p><p>Imogen the daughter of King Cymbeline is persecuted by her wicked stepmother the Queen and by Cloten the Queen’s doltish son. Disguised as a boy she sets out to find her husband the banished Posthumus. On her journey she unwittingly meets her two brothers stolen from the court as infants. Posthumus meanwhile has been convinced by the villainous Iachimo that Imogen is unchaste and agrees to a test of her faithfulness.</p><p>Sophie Thompson is Imogen and Ben Porter is Posthumus. Cymbeline is played by Jack Shepherd while Suzanne Bertish is the Queen. Stephen Mangan plays Cloten and Ron Cook plays Iachimo.</p></p><P>A Blackstone Audio production.</P>