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by Paul Werstine, Barbara A. Mowat, William Shakespeare
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Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
I would guess this is a pretty obscure, rarely performed Shakespeare play these days, but back in his day it was really popular and it was revived quickly later in the 17th Century when the theatres re-opened after the plague had closed them. This shows a fairly big shift in taste, because Pericles ...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: classic, fraudio, historical-fiction, play-dramatisation Read in December, 2008 Pericles - by William Shakespeare - BBC Radio Full-Cast Drama ----------------------------------------------------------------------Shakespeare's romantic adventure full of tyrants, incest, murder, knight...
A little tea, a little chat
A little tea, a little chat rated it 12 years ago
Written as a pair with Independent PeopleReading Smiley on the back cover of Independent People:‘I can’t imagine any greater delight than coming to Independent People for the first time’ Really? I mean, REALLY????? Better than sex? Chocolate icecream??? What sort of life has Smiley lived that makes ...
Manny Rayner's book reviews
Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it 12 years ago
PrefaceAlthough superficially similar in form, most scholars do not consider that the Abridged Pericles belongs to the Madelinian Canon; the most plausible theory holds that it was partly or wholly composed by an imitator, possibly a Manfred Reiner (the spelling is uncertain), who lived in Geneva ar...
Reading Adler's List
Reading Adler's List rated it 13 years ago
There are hints of Greek tradition in Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Pericles wanders in his own odyssey and Euripidean pathos soaks everything. At least until the end. Pericles dries out to a stiff end. The good are rewarded and the bad punished. The trials endured by Pericles and his family lead...
janeg
janeg rated it 13 years ago
Three more to go.
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 16 years ago
Pericles - by [b:William Shakespeare|18135|Romeo and Juliet|William Shakespeare|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XTDJ3P4XL._SL75_.jpg|3349450] - BBC Radio Full-Cast Drama - cheops----------------------------------------------------------------------Shakespeare's romantic adventure full of tyr...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 42 years ago
1998 Dec 14
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