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Cymbeline Refinished
''Cymbeline Refinished'' (1937) is a play-fragment by George Bernard Shaw in which he writes a new final act to Shakespeare's play ''Cymbeline''. The drama follows from Shaw's longstanding need to reimagine Shakespeare's work, epitomised by his play ''Caesar and Cleopatra'' and his late squib ''Shakes versus Shav''.
==Creation==
The play was written "as a lark" after the committee of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre were looking for a way to market a staging of ''Cymbeline'' as part of a plan to fund a memorial to Shakespeare.〔Lenker, Lagretta Tallent, ''Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw'', Greenwood, 2001, p.174.〕 The ending of ''Cymbeline'' had been ridiculed in the nineteenth century, but the play was just beginning to be reconsidered as an "experimental romance".〔Hart, Jonathan, ''Shakespeare and His Contemporaries'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, p.170.〕 Shaw was consciously engaging in a long tradition of rewriting Shakespeare for modern values and tastes.〔
Shaw had expressed the standard Victorian view of the play in 1896 when he wrote that it was "stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order". After altering the ending, Shaw changed his mind about the bulk of the play, but remained convinced that the last act was a disaster, writing in 1946 that it was "one of the finest of Shakespeare's later plays" but "goes to pieces in the final act".〔
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