Cymbeline

Topic: Cymbeline

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• The Pervez Database manual-PASS evidence bank lists Cymbeline with 42 PASS rows.
• The evidence bank links the play to Neville letters through lemmas including prohibition, overland, dismission, reinforce, adjourn, arrearage, penetrate, contradiction, acquittance, and pervert.
• The direct Folger text witness contains hunting language in 2.3, 3.3, 3.6, and 4.2.
• The same witness contains military or artillery language in 1.4, 5.4, and 5.5.
• The same witness contains metal, iron, furnace, or object-language in 1.6, 4.4, and 5.4.

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

• No Ken Feinstein Twitter/blog material is isolated in this packet at present.

3. Dating and Historical Context

• This packet is being built from direct Folger scene reading and the Pervez Database alignment compilations.
• No separate local Neville wiki page for Cymbeline has yet been incorporated into this packet.

4. Cannon References

• In 1.4, Iachimo says:

“an easy battery might lay flat”

• In 5.4, Posthumus says:

“The penitent instrument to pick that bolt”

• In 5.5, Posthumus says:

“the gods throw stones of sulfur on me”

5. Hunting and Hawking References

• In 2.3, Cloten says:

“Their deer to th' stand o' th' stealer”

• In 3.3, Belarius says:

“This is not hunters' language. He that strikes / The venison first shall be the lord o' th' feast”

• In 3.6, Belarius says:

“Boys, we'll go dress our hunt”

• In 4.2, Belarius says:

“We'll come to you after hunting.”

6. Metallurgy, Iron, Furnace, or Forge References

• In 1.6, Iachimo says:

“He furnaces / The thick sighs from him”

• In 4.4, Lucius says:

“Nor iron on his heel!”

• In 5.4, Posthumus says:

“Your neck, sir, is pen, book, and counters”

7. Other Relevant Historical or Local References

• In 2.4, Philario says:

“send th' arrearages”

• In 2.4, Iachimo says:

“Will do 's commission throughly.”

• In 3.4, Imogen says:

“There is a prohibition so divine”

• In 3.5, Lucius says:

“A conduct overland to Milford Haven.”

• In 5.2, Lucius says:

“Let's reinforce, or fly.”

• In 5.4, the First Brother says:

“Why hast thou thus adjourned”

8. Neville Letter Alignments

• The evidence bank links 3.4 (prohibition) to Neville’s letter_017 (1 Aug. 1599), which refers to royal letters of prohibition.
• It links 3.5 (overland) to letter_131 (5 Mar. 1601 to Ralph Winwood), where Neville asks that a parcel be conveyed “overland.”
• It links 5.4 (adjourned) to letter_072 (29 July 1600), where Neville writes of a proposal “to adjourn the treaty for 60 days.”
• It links 2.4 (arrearages) to letter_034 (22 Oct. 1599), which discusses unpaid military arrearages.
• It links 2.3 (penetrate) to letter_075 (28 Aug. 1600), where Neville asks Winwood to “penetrate that point as much as you may.”

9. Quoted Source Text

Direct play text (Folger)

• 1.4: “an easy battery might lay flat”
• 1.6: “He furnaces / The thick sighs from him”
• 2.3: “Their deer to th' stand o' th' stealer”
• 2.4: “Will do 's commission throughly.”
• 2.4: “send th' arrearages”
• 3.3: “This is not hunters' language. He that strikes / The venison first shall be the lord o' th' feast”
• 3.4: “There is a prohibition so divine”
• 3.5: “A conduct overland to Milford Haven.”
• 3.6: “Boys, we'll go dress our hunt”
• 4.2: “We'll come to you after hunting.”
• 4.4: “Nor iron on his heel!”
• 5.2: “Let's reinforce, or fly.”
• 5.4: “The penitent instrument to pick that bolt”
• 5.4: “What fairies haunt this ground? A book? O rare one,”
• 5.4: “Your neck, sir, is pen, book, and counters”
• 5.5: “the gods throw stones of sulfur on me”

10. N-gram Research

• In the codex-neville-ngram-report rare-bigram ranking, Cymbeline ranks 26 with 148 shared rare bigrams.
• In the same folder’s rare-trigram ranking, the play ranks 6 with 294 shared rare trigrams; in the Jaccard-normalized trigram table it ranks 13 with a Jaccard score of 0.007552598453515555.
• No separate exact 4–7 gram phrase dossier for Cymbeline has yet been located in the current report folders. The current n-gram evidence for this play is strongest at the aggregate-ranking level.

11. Citations

• Evidence_Bank_AllPlays_PASS.md, Pervez Database manual-PASS evidence compilation.
• neville_rare_bigrams_vs_plays_1590_1615.csv, Pervez Database rare-bigram play ranking.
• neville_rare_trigrams_vs_plays_1590_1615.csv, Pervez Database rare-trigram play ranking.
• neville_rare_trigrams_jaccard_vs_plays_1590_1615.csv, Pervez Database Jaccard-normalized trigram ranking.
• Neville_Letters_Corpus_v8.xml, direct local letter corpus witness for letter_017, letter_034, letter_072, letter_075, and letter_131.
• Shakespeare, William. Cymbeline. Folger Shakespeare Library text witness:
• front_matter.txt
• act-01_scene-04.txt
• act-01_scene-06.txt
• act-02_scene-03.txt
• act-02_scene-04.txt
• act-03_scene-03.txt
• act-03_scene-04.txt
• act-03_scene-05.txt
• act-03_scene-06.txt
• act-04_scene-02.txt
• act-04_scene-04.txt
• act-05_scene-02.txt
• act-05_scene-04.txt
• act-05_scene-05.txt

12. Notes on Access

• This packet was built from direct scene-by-scene reading of the Folger text witness plus the Pervez Database evidence compilations.