Pericles

William Shakespeare · c. 1608 CE · Play · English · Renaissance

A prince of Tyre solves a riddle he would have done better to fail, and leaves in haste with an assassin behind him. Shipwreck, famine relief, a tournament and a marriage carry him around the eastern Mediterranean, until a storm at sea takes his wife and separates him from his newborn daughter. Loss and wandering staged as romance, at the far end of Shakespeare's career.

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• parallels ↑ The Odyssey
  Homer · c. 725 BCE · Poem
• shares sources with ↑ The Comedy of Errors
  William Shakespeare · c. 1594 CE · Play
• ↓ Cymbeline
  William Shakespeare · c. 1610 CE · Play — influenced by this

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