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Cymbeline, otherwise called Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain and in light of legends that framed a piece of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. Cymbeline presently finds that his lone youngster left, his little girl Imogen (or Innogen), has subtly hitched her darling Posthumus Leonatus, a generally good man of Cymbeline's court. The Queen is likewise plotting to kill both Imogen and Cymbeline, securing what she accepts to be a lethal toxic substance from the court specialist, Cornelius, who, dubious, switches the toxin with a sleeping chemical. The Queen passes the "poison" along to Pisanio, Posthumus and Imogen's caring worker, who is persuaded to think it is a restorative medication. He has Imogen mask herself as a boy and proceed to Milford Haven to look for work. He additionally gives her the Queen's "poison," accepting it will lighten her mental misery. In the pretense of a boy, Imogen takes on the name "Fidele," signifying "unwavering."Two arrangements of twins are isolated upon entering the world by a tempest adrift: a couple of bosses (both named Antipholus) and a couple of workers (both named Dromio).