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Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Shakespearean Romance of Exile, Loss, and Restoration
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ISBN13: 9781627555364
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Nov 10 2013
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A late Shakespearean romance of exile, loss, endurance, and restoration, Pericles, Prince of Tyre follows a wandering prince through shipwreck, separation, apparent death, and unexpected reunion. Moving across courts, seas, and distant cities, the play has the episodic quality of ancient tale and medieval romance, yet its emotional centre is unmistakably human: a father's grief, a daughter's virtue, and the fragile hope that broken lives may yet be made whole.
The play begins in danger and flight, as Pericles uncovers a royal secret and is driven into a life of wandering. His journeys bring love, marriage, catastrophe, and the long separation from his daughter Marina, whose own trials form one of the most affecting strands of the drama. Though often classed among Shakespeare's romances rather than his tragedies, Pericles, Prince of Tyre carries the gravity of suffering while moving toward recognition, forgiveness, and renewal.
For readers of Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, classic English literature, and theatrical romance, Pericles, Prince of Tyre remains a fascinating work: uneven, sea-washed, morally charged, and filled with the strange narrative momentum of old story brought to the stage. Its mixture of danger, chastity, providence, grief, and recovery places it beside the later romances while preserving an older dramatic world of riddles, voyages, tempests, and miraculous return.
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