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)
Pander. | Pand.
Words
226
Characters
1180
Typicality
0.35 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A12024
BritDrama no.
1555
Cluster
Cluster 0 — Clowns, beggars & street sellers
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 0 (shillings, tom, guts, mutton, wares, dan…). Matches are highlighted.
thousand Checkins were as pret tie a proportion to live quietly, and so give over. O our credit comes not in Like the common ditie nor the commodity wages not with the danger: therefore if in our youths we could pick up some pretty estate, it were not amiss to keep our door hatched, beside the before terms we stand upon with the gods
Full speech
Boult. Search the market narrowly, M tt line is full of gallants, we lost too much much money this Mars by being too wenchless. Therefore lets have fresh ones what ere we pay for them, if there be not a conscience to be used in eum rye trade, we shall neu r prosper. Thou sayest true, ther's two unwholesome a conscience, the poor Transylvanian is dead that say with the little baggage. Three or four thousand Checkins were as pret tie a proportion to live quietly, and so give over. O our credit comes not in Like the common ditie nor the commodity wages not with the danger: therefore if in our youths we could pick up some pretty estate, it were not amiss to keep our door hatched, beside the before terms we stand upon with the gods will be strong with us for giving over. As well as we, I, and better too, we offend worse, neither is our profession any trade, It's no calling, but here comes Boult Well, follow me my masters, you shall have your money presently, wife take her in, instruct her what she has to do, that she may not be raw in her entertainment. Well, I had rather then twice the worth of her she had never come here. Now the pox upon her green sickness for me.
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…