Pericles

The story of Pericles of Tyre who flees his homeland to escape King Antiochus, wins the love of Thaisa, daughter of Simonides, and through a series of fateful events eventually reunites with Thaisa and their daughter, Marina.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Mowat (Editor), Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Dr. Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor), Werstine Paul (Editor)
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2021
• EAN: 9781982170172
• ISBN: 978-1-982170-17-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 213 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 352 g
• Illustrations: b&w illustrations throughout
• Series: Folger Shakespeare Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: literary and general