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