Pericles

Pericles (The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre)

    Author: William Shakespeare (with George Wilkins?)

    First Performance: c.1608, London

    Published: 1609

    Genre: Romance in 5 acts; blank verse and prose

    Setting: Antioch, Tyre, Tarsus, Pentapolis, on board ship, Ephesus, and Mitylene, indeterminate period in the ancient world

    Cast: 15m, 7f, extras

Pericles, Prince of Tyre, wishing to marry the daughter of the King of Antioch, must first solve a riddle. In succeeding, Pericles learns that the King has had incest with his daughter. Knowledge of this secret may cause Antioch to go to war against Tyre, so Pericles leaves his homeland. He is shipwrecked and lands at Pentapolis, where he wins the hand of Thaisa. Heading back to Tyre, he is once again caught in a storm. Thaisa, who has just...

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