Cymbeline, the First Folio and a spidery hand | Letters
Rowland Wymer (Letters, 18 December) refers to original sources which would logically lead to Innogen's protagonist being called Giacomo. Simon Forman, the other source for "misspelling" of Imogen, also states in his diary that he saw Mackbeth, king of Codon at the glod, and he writes of Bancko, and Dunkin king of Scotes. The First Folio was what the actors performed, not a historical document " otherwise the weird s…