“‘Tis time to fear,” Pericles observes on Navy Pier, “when tyrants seem to kiss.” The likable Prince of Tyre, hero of the William Shakespeare play of the same name, has a specific tyrant in mind, one ...
“Pericles” is one of those Shakespeare plays that’s performed a lot less often than many of his greatest hits, albeit certainly more often than, say, “Henry VIII.” It’s always fun to see this rambling ...
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Pericles takes the Prince of Tyre on a Mediterranean adventure full of riddles, betrayals…and pirates! From confident leader to yearning lover to seeker of meaning, the hero in this Shakespearean ...
With its shambling and scattered storytelling, problematic plotting, dubious authorship and disregard for unities Aristotelian and otherwise, “Pericles” is generally acknowledged to be one of William ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. As acknowledged by Director Kiernan McGowan's program note, Pericles is a ...
Late in life, when writers are more inclined to take the bigger, sadder, more complicated view of our long haul on this planet, William Shakespeare wrote (or more likely co-wrote) what variously are ...
"Pericles" is one of the Bard's late Jacobean comedies. It’s also one of the plays considered to be co-authored by Shakespeare, and therefore not entirely original. The play does feel less like a ...
Shakespeare’s “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” is, according to Ben Jonson, “a mouldy tale,” and, until recently, it was seldom staged. In an informal poll of dedicated New York theatre-goers, last week, ...
Rob Melrose directs the free tour that played prisons, homeless shelters, centers for the elderly and other community venues, including the Brownsville Recreation Center in Brooklyn, Fortune Society ...