# Cymbeline - WTF?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cymbeline-wtf/213906>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 18, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cymbeline-wtf/213906 "2003-11-18T15:12:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cymbeline-wtf/213906/1 "2003-11-18T15:12:50Z")

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I read this yesterday for a class I’m taking. Lord, but there are some awful Shakespeare plays. This one and _Titus Andronicus_ take the cake as far as what I’ve read, but this is astoundingly bad.

What is up with that PLOT? How many plots does one play need, and what is the bare minimum percentage of plots that make sense? Jupiter? JUPITER?? Riding an eagle and throwing lightning bolts? WHY? WHY? WHY?

To think that (theoretically, anyway) the same author responsible for _Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Macbeth,_ etc. could crank out this load of muddled crap. I guess there’s a reason the better-known plays are, in fact, better known, huh?

Can anyone defend this thing? It’s an abomination!

LC