Cymbeline repeats many of Shakespeare's plot devices: ?villainous slander, homicidal jealousy, cross-gender disguise, a deathlike trance, the appearance of Jupiter in a vision, and final repentance, forgiveness, and reunion? (Mowat, xiii), all of which result in an ?improbable story? (Mowat, xv). As a romance, the play calls to mind the need for Coleridge's ?willing suspension of disbelief? (Biographia Literaria, quoted in Greenblatt, 478). Yet it is still Shakespeare.