Pericles: Prince of Tyre
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140707298 (0140707298)
Publish date: 1976
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Read For School,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Poetry,
English Literature,
17th Century
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 ...
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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...
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...
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