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Monday, December 23, 2013

"Pericles: Prince of Tyre" -William Shakespeare

Every once in a while, I read a Shakespeare play. First, to keep my skill up and second, I want to read all of them eventually.

Pericles is on the run, wins a princess by in a contest, and marries her. His wife gives birth during a storm on a ship as they travel back to Tyre. The wife dies and Pericles leaves the child with a nurse. The wife lives, the child is run off by the jealous nurse, and in a classic Shakespeare Act V, they all find each other in the end.

Pericles is one of the easier plays of Shakespeare I've ever read. There is a lot more rhyming and it's fairly short.

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Some parts are like the fairy tale, Snow White.

Others are like the myth of Hippolyta and Atalanta.

Still more like The Princess Bride.

2 comments:

  1. Wait...the wife both lives AND dies? This Shakespeare guy was smoking something!

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  2. She dies in childbirth at sea in a storm, they send her body overboard, it floats to shore where she is revived ... kind of a "mostly dead" rather than "all dead"

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