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Introduction

Pericles, our hero, must flee for his life from a wicked king who wants him killed for revealing a dark secret. As he wanders the world he relieves a famine in Tarsus and wins a beautiful princess for his wife in Pentapolis, but then seemingly loses his wife in a terrible storm at sea. Unbeknownst to him when her casket is washed ashore she is revived for a later unexpected reconciliation. Then he leaves his new born daughter with apparent friends in order to resume his travels. Fourteen years pass and his daughter is nearly murdered, captured by pirates and sold to a brothel. Pericles believes, like his wife, his daughter is dead. Enduring utter despair, he is eventually reunited with his daughter and later his wife.

Pericles was likely a collaborative work between Shakespeare and George Wilkins, considered by many to be something of an unsavoury hack, and who evidently wrote the first two acts, making it somewhat of an uneven work. It is suggested that Shakespeare

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Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Play written in part by William Shakespeare

Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio. It was published in 1609 as a quarto, was not included in Shakespeare's collections of works until the third folio, and the main inspiration for the play was Gower's Confessio Amantis.^[1] Various arguments support the theory that Shakespeare was the sole author of the play, notably in DelVecchio and Hammond's Cambridge edition of the play, but modern editors generally agree that Shakespeare was responsible for almost exactly half the play — 827 lines — the main portion after scene 9 that follows the story of Pericles and Marina.^[a] Modern textual studies suggest that the first two acts, 835 lines detailing the many voyages of Pericles, were written by a colla