The Complete Pericles Prince of Tyre

<p>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. <br />“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). <br />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.</p>