The Complete Pericles, Prince of Tyre: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play

By Donald Richardson

Even though most Shakespearean scholars argue that Pericles is not entirely the work of Shakespeare, similar to The Winters Tale, it continues to attract playgoers.
Shipwreck, famine, and other disasters punctuate this wondrous tale, in which a knight in rusty armor fights for his true love and a princess kidnaped by pirates retains her honor by setting a virtuous example for her captors (Daurio, cover).
The play is a true romance, or as Joseph Papp states, it is a fairy tale about a separated familys coming back together again. (Quoted in Bevington). Papp also reminds perceptive readers or audience members to look for little bits of wisdom along the way; such is true of the entirety of the Shakespeare canon.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524639792

Donald Richardson

Donald Richardson OAM, a senior practicing artist and retired long-term educator in art, design and art history, has never been satisfied by historic writing in the field. In this book, he summarises and deconstructs key documents and marshals the clamouring desperation of many for redress and restitution. In the process, he proposes innovations for education and practice (in particular relating to perspective rendering and form). More generally, he proposes that the aesthetic be recognised as a sense of universal human relevance and value.

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Published by AuthorHouse 09/26/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5246-3980-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5246-3981-5 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-5246-3979-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016915312

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Contents

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

ACT V

Works Cited

Other Books by Donald J. Richardson

Dust in the Wind, 2001

Rails to Light, 2005

Song of Fools, 2006

Words of Truth, 2007

The Meditation of My Heart, 2008

The Days of Darkness, 2009

The Dying of the Light, 2010

Between the Darkness and the Light, 2011

The Days of Thy Youth, 2012

Those Who Sit in Darkness¸ 2013

Just a Song at Twilight, 2014

Covered with Darkness, 2015

Behold the Sun, 2016

The Complete Hamlet, 2012

The Complete Macbeth, 2013

The Complete Romeo and Juliet, 2013

The Complete King Lear, 2013

The Complete Julius Caesar, 2013

The Complete Merchant of Venice, 2013

The Complete Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2013

The Complete Much Ado About Nothing, 2013

The Complete Twelfth Night, 2014

The Complete Taming of the Shrew, 2014

The Complete Tempest, 2014

The Complete Othello, 2014

The Complete Henry IV, Part One, 2014

The Complete Antony and Cleopatra, 2014

The Complete Comedy of Errors, 2014

The Complete Henry IV, Part Two, 2014

The Complete Henry V, 2014

The Tragedy of Richard the Third, 2015

The Complete Two Gentlemen of Verona, 2015

The Complete Richard the Second, 2015

The Complete Coriolanus, 2015

The Complete As You Like It, 2015

The Complete All’s Well That Ends Well, 2015

The Complete Love’s Labors Lost, 2015

The Complete Measure for Measure, 2015

The CompleteWinter’s Tale, 2015

The CompleteHenry VIII, 2016

The Complete Troilus and Cressida, 2016

The Complete King John, 2016

The Complete Cymbaline, 2016

The Complete Titus Andronicus, 2016

About the Book

Even though most Shakespearean scholars argue that Pericles is not entirely the work of Shakespeare, similar to The Winter’s Tale it continues to attract playgoers.

Shipwreck, famine, and other disasters punctuate this wondrous tale, in which a knight in rusty armor fights for his true love and a princess kidnaped by pirates retains her honor by setting a virtuous example for her captors (Daurio, cover).

The play is a true romance, or as Joseph Papp states, it is a fairy tale about a separated family’s coming back together again (Quoted in Bevington). Papp also reminds perceptive readers or audience members to look for little bits of wisdom along the way; such is true of the entirety of the Shakespeare canon.

About the Author

Donald J. Richardson is still trying to teach English Composition at Phoenix College.

ACT I

PROLOGUE

Enter GOWER

Before the palace of Antioch

5 It hath been sung at festivals,

7 And lords and ladies in their lives

15 I life would wish, and that I might

22 Who died and left a female heir,

26 And her to incest did provoke:

27 Bad child; worse father! to entice his own

31 The beauty of this sinful dame

33 To seek her as a bed-fellow,

34 In marriage-pleasures play-fellow:

35 Which to prevent he made a law,

41 What now ensues, to the judgment of your eye

Exit

SCENE I. Antioch. A room in the palace.

Enter ANTIOCHUS, Prince PERICLES, and followers

ANTIOCHUS

2 The danger of the task you undertake.

PERICLES

3 I have, Antiochus, and, with a soul

4 Embolden’d with the glory of her praise,

ANTIOCHUS

6 Bring in our daughter, clothed like a bride,

11 To knit in her their best perfections.

Music. Enter the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS

PERICLES

20 That have inflamed desire in my breast

21 To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree,

ANTIOCHUS

25 Prince Pericles—

PERICLES

ANTIOCHUS

28 With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touch’d;

30 Her face, like heaven, enticeth thee to view