Cymbeline, but make it Denis Villeneuve’s Dune.

Or: the apparent concept for The Globe’s revival of Cymbeline in London. 

It’s not revelatory to say that Dune exists in the same lineage as Shakespeare’s plays about the generational, sociopolitical power struggles between kings and queens and princes and princesses and emperors and so on and so forth. 

But Cymbeline aping the aesthetics of the recent Dune smash-hits draws the parallels in to a direct conversation, a clever way of utilizing contemporary popularity to reframe interest in aged art.