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Posthumus and Imogen
The editors of the Oxford and Norton Shakespeare believe the name of Imogen is a misspelling of Innogen — they draw several comparisons between Cymbeline and Much Ado About Nothing, in early editions of which a ghost character named Innogen was supposed to be Leonato's wife ( Posthumus being also known as " Leonatus ", the Latin form of the Italian name in the other play ).
The two have secretly married, exchanging jewellery as tokens: a ring from Imogen, a bracelet from Posthumus.
Cymbeline has discovered the affair and banishes Posthumus for his presumption, for Imogen is currently Cymbeline's only child and so her husband is heir to the British throne.
Posthumus waxes at length on Imogen's beauty and chastity, and Iachimo challenges him to a bet that he, Iachimo, can seduce Imogen and bring Posthumus proof of her adultery.
Returning to Italy, Iachimo convinces Posthumus that he has successfully seduced Imogen.
In his wrath, Posthumus sends two letters to Britain: one to Imogen, telling her to meet him at Milford Haven, on the west coast of Wales ; the other to Pisanio, Posthumus's servant left behind at court, ordering him to murder Imogen at the Haven.
Dressing himself in Posthumus's clothes, he determines to go to Wales and kill Posthumus while Imogen looks on, after which he will rape her on Posthumus's corpse before dragging her back to court for marriage.
Imogen awakes to find Cloten's headless body, and takes it for Posthumus due to the clothes.
A penitent Iachimo tells of his bet, how he could not seduce Imogen and yet tricked Posthumus into thinking he had.
Posthumus then comes forward to corroborate Iachimo's story, revealing his identity and acknowledging his guilt and wrong in desiring Imogen dead.
Ecstatic, Imogen throws herself at Posthumus, who still takes her for a boy and knocks her down.
With her brothers restored to their place in the line of inheritance, Imogen is now free to marry Posthumus.
Barbara Jefford was criticised as too cold and formal for Imogen ; Leon Gluckman played Posthumus, Derek Godfrey Iachimo, and Derek Francis Cymbeline.
A decade later, John Barton's 1974 production for the RSC ( with assistance from Clifford Williams ) featured Sebastian Shaw in the title role, Tim Pigott-Smith as Posthumus, Ian Richardson as Jachimo, and Susan Fleetwood as Imogen.
In 1987, Bill Alexander directed the play in The Other Place ( later transferring to the Pit in London's Barbican Centre ) with Harriet Walter playing Imogen, David Bradley as Cymbeline and Nicholas Farrell as Posthumus.
Richard Johnson, Claire Bloom, Helen Mirren, and Robert Lindsay play Cymbeline, his Queen, Imogen, and Jachimo, respectively, with Michael Pennington as Posthumus.
The king, under the influence of his wicked second wife, forbids his daughter Imogen to marry Posthumus Leonatus, a low-born but worthy man, preferring that she marry his boorish stepson Cloten, leading to mistaken identity, jealousy caused by false accusations of infidelity and a war with Rome provoked by the withholding of tribute, again at the instigation of the queen.
In this play, Iachimo bets Posthumus ( Imogen's husband ) that he can make Imogen commit adultery with him.
Imogen is princess of Britain, and the virtuous wife of the exiled Posthumus, whose praise of her moral purity incites Posthumus's acquaintance Iachimo to bet Postumus that he can seduce her.

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Posthumus, still alive, gives himself up to Cymbeline as a Roman soldier, hoping to win his sought-for death by execution.
On the untimely death of Albert in 1439, Hunyadi was of the volition that Hungary was best served by a warrior king and lent his support to the candidature of young King of Poland Władysław III of Varna in 1440, and thus came into collision with the powerful magnate Ulrich II of Celje, the chief proponent of Albert's widow Elisabeth of Bohemia ( 1409 – 1442 ) and her infant son, Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary.
In 1625 Purchas published Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes, a massive four-volume collection of travel stories that can be seen as a continuation of Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations and was partly based on manuscripts left by Hakluyt, who had died in 1616.
* Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells, by Englishmen and others ( 4 vols.
* Digitized works by Samuel Purchas ( 20 volumes of Hakluytus Posthumus etc.
It was founded in 1935 by Nicolaas Posthumus.
Posthumus ( who also perform the theme for the NFL on CBS ), with an introduction by series composer Michael A. Levine that begins with an otherworldly wail from vocalist Elise Morris.
Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and others.
* " Posthumus Zone ," recorded / written by E. S.
These were published in the 1625 edition of Samuel Purchas's Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells, by Englishmen and others.
In 1440-1443, there were fighting between the castle of Pressburg ruled by county heads from the Rozgonyi family ( supporting King Władysław III of Poland ) and the town of Pressburg ( supporting – and owned by – Queen Elisabeth which ruled for the young Ladislaus Posthumus ) – see History of Pressburg for details.
" Posthumus Zone " is a song composed by the Los Angeles electronic music group E. S.
" Posthumus Zone ", which is just under a minute long, was released by E. S.
It details the adventures of Princess Imogen ( played in this version by the actress Meg ), whose father King Cymbeline refuses to let her marry the noble but poorly-born knight Leonates Posthumus.

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The other members of the Bureau are all vice-presidents: Jill Evans ( Plaid Cymru ), Gustave Alirol ( Occitan Party ), Fabrizio Comencini ( Liga Veneta Repubblica ), Ana Miranda Paz ( Galician Nationalist Bloc ), Ian Hudghton ( Scottish National Party ), Sybren Posthumus ( Frisian National Party ), Sebastian Colio ( Basque Solidarity ), Dimitrios Ioannou ( Rainbow ), Rolf Granlund ( Future of Åland ), Reinhild Campidell ( South Tyrolean Freedom ) and Lucy Collyer ( Majorca Socialist Party ).
Jovinus fled for his life, but was besieged and captured in Valentia ( Valence, Drôme ) and taken to Narbo ( Narbonne ), where Caius Posthumus Dardanus, the praetorian prefect ( governor ) in Gaul, who had remained loyal to Honorius, had him executed.
** Dick Posthumus ( R ), 47 %
** Dick Posthumus ( R ), 81 %
Posthumus ' new single Arise ( Theme to the AFC Championship on CBS ), the description of the song hinted that the new album would be called " Deciphered.
By his wife Elizabeth, Thomas Hoby had two sons, Edward and Thomas Posthumus ( both subsequently knighted ), and two daughters, Elizabeth and Anne, who died within a few days of each other in February 1571.
* Cymbeline ( as Posthumus ), Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-on-Avon 1979
* Cymbeline ( as Posthumus ), Royal National Theatre, 1980
** Dick Posthumus ( R ), 81 %
She is reunited with Posthumus, her father ( King Cymbeline ), and discovers two of the men who took her in are actually her long lost brothers.
The successors of Sigismund: Albert ( 1437 – 1439 ), Ladislaus Posthumus ( 1453 – 1457 ), and Matthias Corvinus ( 1458 – 1490 )—- likewise confirmed the privilegium of Béla IV.

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