On Academia and Cymbeline

"We have, nevertheless, the consolation of knowing that years of minute scholarly research have marshalled a body of minor evidence and hypothesis into a pattern imperfect in detail but seemingly reliable in its general outline." J.M Nosworthy, writing in the introduction to the Arden edition of 1955 about the difficulties of placing Cymbeline in relation to Shakespeare's other plays, and thus, more generally, to his age.