“‘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 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 ...

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Let’s just say this right up front: no one is sure how much of “Pericles” was actually written by Shakespeare. The majority of the play is so far from Shakespeare’s style, in fact, that many scholars ...

"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, ...