Pericles

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Overview
Pericles, California Shakespeare Theatre, 2008

This fanciful, rambling play, about the misadventures of a royal wanderer (nothing to do with the celebrated Athenian politician), greatly appealed to Shakespeare's original audiences, to the indignation of his friend and rival Ben Jonson. Not included in the First Folio, its questionable authorship and erratic plot ensured its neglect, but its unfamiliarity and eccentricity excite modern audiences, who revel in the Levantine exoticism of its settings and the alternating perversity and charm of the father/daughter relationships (see Cal Shakes's 2008 production). Its heroines, Thaisa and her charming daughter Marina, are very endearing while they cope with extraordinary misfortunes, and all ends happily, except for the villains. Shakespeare would have known the tomb of its Chorus, the poet Gower, in what is now Southwark Cathedral, near the Globe Theatre.

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Pericles, California Shakespeare Theatre, 2008
Pericles, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1980
Pericles, Stratford Festival, 1973
Pericles, California Shakespeare Theatre, 2008
Pericles (Christopher Kelly) at the Bruns Theatre: California Shakespeare Theatre, 2008.
Pericles (Christopher Kelly) Meets Some Fishermen at the Bruns Theatre: California Shakespeare Theatre, 2008.
Pericles 2008: Thaisa and Simonedes.
Pericles, 2008: Thaisa celebrates the victory of Pericles (Christopher Kelly).
Pericles, 2008; Pericles recovers his daughter, Marina (Sarah Nealis).
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Play Settings: Classical Greece
Bibliography

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Clover, Brian. Pericles, Prince of Tyre, directed by Kathryn Hunter, Shakespeare's Globe, London, 2005. CurtainUp, June 2005.

Darcy, Robert. "Pericles." Review of Pericles, directed by Scott Freeman, Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, Elmwood Park, Omaha, June 23-July 10, 2005. Shakespeare Bulletin 24, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 100-3.

Del Vecchio, Doreen, and Antony Hammond, eds. Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Gossett, Suzanne. "'Tell Thy Story": Mary Zinmmerman's Pericles." Shakespeare Quarterly 57, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 183-94.

Gutman, Les. Review of Pericles, directed by Brian Kulick, Public Theater, New York, 1998. CurtainUp, November 10, 1998.

Internet Shakespeare Editions, Performances of Pericles.

Kennicott, Philip. "Pericles: a Play that Demands a Bard Attitude." Review of Pericles, directed by Mary Zimmerman, The Shakespeare Theater, Washington, DC. Washington Post, November 7, 2004.

Michael, Nancy C. Pericles: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1987.

Nelsen, Paul. "Shot from the Canon: The BBC Video of Pericles." In Pericles: Critical Essays, edited by David Skeele, 297-324. New York; London: Garland, 2000.

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Warren, Roger, ed. A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

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