Pericles, William Shakespeare
Pericles, William Shakespeare
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Pericles
Prince of Tyre

Author: William Shakespeare, Peggy Shannon, Gerald Sternbach

Narrator: Phyllis Applegate, Full Cast

Unabridged: 2 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/25/2010

Synopsis

This musical audio adaptation of Shakespeare’s timeless tale opens when our hero is at the palace of Antioch with King Antiochus to solve the riddle that will win the King’s daughter’s hand in marriage. They are surrounded by the heads of men who have died trying before him. Pericles solves the riddle, learning the terrible truth about the incestuous relationship between the Princess and the King. Pericles flees Antioch, fearing Antiochus’ wrath.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Akuyoe, Phyllis Applegate, Patti Austin, David Downing, Judyanne Elder, Bennet Guillory, Rif Hutton, Bob Devin Jones, Ted Lange, Eugene Lee, Carl Lumbly, Don Reed, Michele Lamar Richards, Don Willis
Singers: Mary Bond Davis, Edie Lehmann and Raymond Patterson.

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on May 13, 2019

The first half (maybe three-fifths) of "Pericles" contains the worst writing found in any Shakespeare play. Fortunately for Shakespeare's reputation, he didn't write it: some hack--probably the ephemeral George Wilkins--is responsible instead. Much of the verse of the first three acts is difficult,......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on May 20, 2020

This was fucking bananas and by no means Shakespeare’s most accomplished or most coherent work (which would make sense, given that he only coauthored it) and it felt like it was trying to be 12 different plays (of 12 different genres) crammed into one, but my god I enjoyed it SO MUCH? I think this i......more

Goodreads review by Manny on February 25, 2013

Preface Although superficially similar in form, most scholars do not consider that the Abridged Pericles belongs to the Madelinian Canon; the most plausible theory holds that it was partly or wholly composed by an imitator, possibly a Manfred Reiner (the spelling is uncertain), who lived in Geneva ar......more

Goodreads review by David on November 04, 2017

Man on the Run 4 November 2017 Well, I believe that I've got seven plays, and the poems, and I would have read all of Shakespeare's extant works. While I do have a copy of his complete works sitting in my lounge room, a part of me doesn't want to read it, first of all because it is a huge volume and......more

Goodreads review by Eylül on January 16, 2025

Shakespeare külliyatına devam ediyorum ve yolum bu ÇOK ama ÇOK TUHAF esere vardı. Yani gerçekten, kendisinin en garip oyunu denilmesi boşa değilmiş. Bu kitabın başlarını Shakespeare'in yazmadığı, kitabın ortasından sonra devraldığı iddiaları var, hiçbir dayanağım yok ama bence yüzde yüz doğru! Zira......more

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