Pericles (play)

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:play
gptkbp:adaptation gptkb:BBC_Television_Shakespeare_(1984)
Royal Shakespeare Company productions
various stage productions
opera by William Shield
gptkbp:author gptkb:William_Shakespeare
gptkbp:category Shakespearean plays
Plays based on real people
1600s plays
Plays set in ancient Greece
gptkbp:coauthor gptkb:George_Wilkins
gptkbp:criticalReception mixed
gptkbp:dateWritten circa 1607
gptkbp:firstPerformed 1608
gptkbp:firstPublished gptkb:1609_quarto
gptkbp:genre romance
tragicomedy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Pericles (play)
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:literaryPeriod Jacobean drama
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Pericles,_Prince_of_Tyre
gptkbp:notableCharacter gptkb:Dionyza
gptkb:Helicanus
gptkb:Thaisa
gptkb:Cleon
gptkb:Simonides
gptkb:Gower_(as_Chorus)
marina
gptkbp:notableQuote "Few love to hear the sins they love to act."
"This world to me is like a lasting storm, Whirring me from my friends."
"One sin, I know, another doth provoke; Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke."
gptkbp:setting Ancient Greece
gptkbp:ShakespeareCanon First Folio (not included)
gptkbp:source gptkb:John_Gower's_Confessio_Amantis
The Patterne of Painefull Adventures by Lawrence Twine
gptkbp:structure five acts
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Pericles_of_Tyre
gptkbp:theme gptkb:family
adventure
fate
redemption
loss and reunion
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Phyllida_Lloyd
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6