: A husband (Posthumus) makes a reckless bet on his wife's (Imogen) chastity, a plot point borrowed from Boccaccio's Decameron .
One of the most distinctive features of William Shakespeare’s (written c. 1608–1610) is its extreme genre-defying complexity , often referred to as a "romance" or "tragicomedy". Cymbeline
: Two princes, kidnapped in infancy, live as "noble savages" in a cave in Wales, unaware of their royal blood. : A husband (Posthumus) makes a reckless bet
The play is unique because Shakespeare appears to intentionally throw in every dramatic device he ever used. A single production can feel like a "best of" Shakespeare marathon: kidnapped in infancy