• Pericles Wet presented by Portland Shakespeare Project at Artists Repertory Theatre

    Author(s):
    HC Admin
    Date:
    2018
    Subject(s):
    Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, English drama, Sixteenth century, Seventeenth century, Theater
    Item Type:
    Review
    Tag(s):
    Artists Repertory Theatre, Pericles, William Shakespeare
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/85rk-3f75
    Abstract:
    What happened to the “fair Hesperides” (1.1.28)? This is the ques- tion behind Ellen Margolis’s Pericles Wet, an adaptation of Pericles pro- duced for its world premiere by the Portland Shakespeare Project. An act of recovery, the play is organized around the lives of female characters Pericles meets, or the sequence of punishments he suffers. Having “built a life on the wreckage” of the incest of Antiochus’s daughter, Hes, I was still (productively) uncertain, after two viewings of this production, as to whether this was a play about a hero or about the victims such ostensible paragons leave in their wake.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.1353/shb.2018.0055
    Publisher:
    Project Muse
    Pub. Date:
    2018-11-4
    Journal:
    Shakespeare Bulletin
    Volume:
    36
    Issue:
    3
    Page Range:
    554 - 558
    ISSN:
    1931-1427
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    9 months ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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