Pericles, Prince of Tyre Translation

Gower (acting as the chorus) steps out on stage and tells us he's come back from the dead to share an old-school story with us.Gower brags about how awesome the story is and tells us to kick ba...

Our hero, Pericles (a.k.a. the "Prince of Tyre") has rolled into Antioch looking to snag the hot princess for his wife.(Oh, by the way, sometimes characters call Pericles a "king." Shakespeare uses...

Cut to the city of Tyre, where Pericles has made it back home safe and sound... for now. Pericles is a nervous wreck. He tells us in a soliloquy that he knows Antiochus will stop at nothing to hav...

Sure enough, Thaliard shows up in Tyre looking to snuff out Pericles.

Cut to the city of Tharsus.We meet the Governor (Cleon) and his wife (Dionyza). They're boohooing to each other about the years-long famine that's turned their once-thriving city into a bunch of ru...

Gower comes out on stage and summarizes what we've just seen, just in case we had to leave our seats to makea popcorn run.

Cut to the shores of Pentapolis.Our hero is sopping wet and looking like a drowned rat.Seriously angry, Pericles rants and raves about his lousy luck until three Fishermen show up.

We find ourselves at Simonides's court, where everyone's getting ready for the big tournament.

Fast forward to the post-joust banquet celebration.Princess Thaisa gives Pericles a victory wreath and congratulates him on kicking butt and taking names at the tourney.

Back in Tyre, Helicanus and a dude named Escanes gossip about King Antiochus, the guy who's been sleeping with hisdaughter and trying to have Pericles killed.Apparently, the dirty daddy-daughter du...

Meanwhile, back at the palace in Pentapolis, King Simonides breaks some bad news to the eager knights.King Simonides says that Thaisa has decided she doesn't want to get married just yet, so all th...

Gower comes out on stage and tells us the following: 1) Pericles and Thaisa got hitched and had an awesome honeymoon, and 2) Thaisa is totally preggers.

On a ship in the middle of a stormy ocean, Pericles is out of his mind with fear for his wife and unborn child.

The next thing we know, Thaisa's coffin washes up on the shore of Ephesus.A couple of servants find it and take it to the house of a doctor named Cerimon.

Meanwhile, Pericles has been chilling out in Tharsus with Cleon and Dionyza, who have agreed to raise hisdaughter, Marina, while he goes back to Tyre.(Remember, Pericles has to get back home, other...

Back in Ephesus, our favorite doctor, Cerimon, has been taking care of Thaisa.Cerimon shows Thaisa the letter and the jewels he found in her coffin, and she verifies her hubby's handwriting.Thaisa...

Fast-forward several years. Gower comes out on stage and tells us about Marina. The kid has grown up to be quite a beauty. Plus, she's super talented and popular and everyone in Tharsus love...

Wicked Dionyza meets up with her hitman, Leonine.Dionyza warns Leonine not to wimp out when he goes to snuff out little Marina, even if the kid starts crying and begging and stuff.

The next thing we know, we're at a brothel in "Meteline" (a.k.a. Mytilene).(It looks and sounds a whole lot like the kind of "bawdy house" that one might come across in Shakespeare's London, though...

Back in Tharsus, Dionyza thinks Marina is dead and has told Cleon what she did.We find out that Dionyza also poisoned Leonine so he couldn't rat her out to anyone.Cleon totally freaks out about his...

Gower shows up on stage and tells us that Pericles and his entourage are on their way to Tharsus to see Marina.

In Meteline, we run into two gentlemen as they're leaving the brothel where Marina lives. We find out that Marina's been preaching to all the customers and has convinced a lot of them to sto...

Inside the brothel, Pander, Bawd, and Bolt complain that Marina is still a virgin and is totally running their business into the ground.Bolt thinks he needs to "ravish" her so she'll stop preaching...

Gower comes onstage and tells us that Marina has been sent to an "honest house" where she is superpopular and earns money sewing and stuff. Plus, Bawd and Pander are thrilled because she sen...

Cut to Pericles's ship, which has just landed off the coast of Meteline.

Cut to Diana's temple in Ephesus, where Thaisa is chilling with a bunch of virgins. Gower comes on stage and tells us that Lysimachus threw a huge party in honor of Pericles before everyone...

Now the whole crew has arrived at the temple: Pericles, his followers, Lysimachus, Helicanus, and Marina.Pericles strolls up to the altar and starts telling his story.