in Pericles, Prince of Tyre — Shakespeare, William; Wilkins, George
Metadata
Play
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Author
Shakespeare, William; Wilkins, George
Year (catalogued)
1609
First performance
1608
Decade
1600s
Genre
Romance
Play type
Adult Professional
Company
King's Men
Theater
Globe;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
1.
Words
419
Characters
2156
Typicality
0.26 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A12024
BritDrama no.
1555
Cluster
Cluster 16 — Errand servants & brief parts
Important excerpts
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Full speech
What, to pelch? What Patch-breech, I say. Look how thou stirrest now: Come away, or I'll fetch'th with a wanion. Alas poor souls, it grieved my heart to hear, What pitiful cries they made to us, to help them, When (welladay) we could scarce help our selves. Why, as Men aland; The great ones eat up little ones: I can compare our rich Misers oh nothing so fitly, As to a Whale; a plays and tumbles, Driving the poor Fry before him, And at last, devour them all at a mouthful: Such Whale's have I herd on, a'th land, Who never leave gaping, till they swallowed The whole Parish, Church, Steeple, Bells and all. Because he should have swallowed me too, And when I had been in his belly, I would have kept such a jangling of the Bells, That he should never have left, Till he cast Bells Steeple, Church and Parish up again: But if the good King Simonides were of my mind. No friend, cannot you beg? Here's them in our country of reece, Gets more with begging, then we can do with working. Di , ke-tha; now Gods forbid't, and I have a Gown here, come put it on, keep thee warm: now afore me a handsome fellow: Come, thou shalt go home, and we'll have Flesh for all day, Fish for fasting-dais and more; or Puddings and Flap-jacks, and thou shalt be welcome. Hark you sir; do you know where ye are? Why e tell you, this I called Pantapoles, And our King, the good Symonides. I sir, and he deserves so to be called, For his peaceable reign, and good government. Marry sir, half a days journey: And I'll tell you, He hath a fair Daughter, and to morrow is her birthday, And there are Princes and Knights come from all parts of the World to Just and Turney for her love. Oh sir, things must be as they may: and what a man can not get, he may lawfully worser ale for his Wives soul. What mean you sir? Why wilt thou turney for the Lady? Why di'e take it: and the Gods give thee good an't. Pardon us, sir; with us at Sea it hath been still observed. And we are strong in eastern, therefore briefly yeeld'er, But to have divi city preached there, did you ever dream of such a thing? I'll do any thing now that is virtuous, but I am out of the road of rutting for ever.
Plot summary
Plot — Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Pericles comes to Antioch to woo the daughter and heir of King Antiochus. Her suitors must solve a riddle about her, or be executed. Pericles realizes that the riddle cryptically reveals that she and her father are an incestuous couple. Seeing that the game is up, Antiochus pretends that Pericles is mistaken, grants him a forty-day reprieve so that he can try again, and makes arrangements to have him poisoned. Pericles flees to Tyre, but the murderer, Thaliard, follows him. On realizing the danger, Pericles leaves his principality in the care of Helicanus; he has already gone by the ===== PAGE 413 ===== 1607 time Thaliard arrives. He goes to Tarsus, which has been stricken by a famine, and supplies corn to Cleon, the Governor. In Tyre, Thaliard’s murderous intentions are discovered, and Pericles is recalled home. In Antioch, the King and his daughter are destroyed by fire from heaven. On his way home, Pericles is shipwrecked on the coast of Pentapolis, where King Simonides is holding a tournament for the hand of his daughter, Thaisa. Some fishermen retrieve Pericles’ armour from the sea, and, though it is rusty, he is able to compete. He is victorious, and Thaisa falls in love with him. Simonides sends away the other knights, telling them that Thaisa has taken a vow to the goddess Diana not to marry for another year. She insists that she will marry Pericles, with or without her father’s consent. Simonides makes a show of disapproval, but in fact her choice accords with his wishes. The lords of Tyre believe that Pericles is dead, and attempt to elect Helicanus as his successor; Helicanus demurs, and asks them to wait another year and institute a search. A message reaches Pericles, and he sets sail for Tyre; Thaisa insists on going with him, even though she is pregnant. The ship is caught in a storm as she is giving birth to a baby girl, and she apparently dies. The superstitious sailors insist that her body cannot remain on board, and Pericles is forced to bury her at sea. He takes his daughter, Marina, to be brought up in Cleon’s court at Tarsus. Thaisa is washed up at Ephesus, and Cerimon brings her back to life. Believing herself lost to Pericles forever, she becomes a votaress of the goddess Diana. Fourteen years later, Cleon’s wife Dionyza becomes jealous that Marina outshines her own daughter, and hires Leonine to murder her. Before he can do it, she is carried away by pirates; even so, he reports that Marina is dead as ordered, and Dionyza poisons…