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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Chapter 736: Dramatis Personæ

By William Shakespeare

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This collection gathers dramatic works and lyrical poems spanning comedies, tragedies, histories, and a sonnet sequence, presenting plays in verse and prose alongside narrative poems. The pieces examine human experience through recurring themes of love, ambition, jealousy, power, fate, and the tension between appearance and reality, moving between comic confusion and tragic collapse. Language and theatrical craft are central, employing vivid imagery, rhetorical invention, puns, and varied poetic forms to probe identity, political conflict, and moral choice across intimate moments and public spectacle.

PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE

Contents

Chorus. Before the palace of Antioch

Scene I. Antioch. A room in the palace

Scene II. Tyre. A room in the palace

Scene III. Tyre. An ante-chamber in the Palace

Scene IV. Tarsus. A room in the Governor’s house

Scene I. Pentapolis. An open place by the seaside

Scene II. The same. A public way, or platform leading to the lists

Scene III. The same. A hall of state: a banquet prepared

Scene IV. Tyre. A room in the Governor’s house

Scene V. Pentapolis. A room in the palace

Scene I. On shipboard

Scene II. Ephesus. A room in Cerimon’s house

Scene III. Tarsus. A room in Cleon’s house

Scene IV. Ephesus. A room in Cerimon’s house

Scene I. Tarsus. An open place near the seashore

Scene II. Mytilene. A room in a brothel

Scene III. Tarsus. A room in Cleon’s house

Scene IV. Before the monument of Marina at Tarsus

Scene V. Mytilene. A street before the brothel

Scene VI. The same. A room in the brothel

Scene I. On board Pericles’ ship, off Mytilene

Scene II. Before the temple of Diana at Ephesus

Scene III. The temple of Diana at Ephesus

Dramatis Personæ

ANTIOCHUS, king of Antioch.
PERICLES, prince of Tyre.
HELICANUS, ESCANES, two lords of Tyre.
SIMONIDES, king of Pentapolis.
CLEON, governor of Tarsus.
LYSIMACHUS, governor of Mytilene.
CERIMON, a lord of Ephesus.
THALIARD, a lord of Antioch.
PHILEMON, servant to Cerimon.
LEONINE, servant to Dionyza.
Marshal.
A Pandar.
BOULT, his servant.
The Daughter of Antiochus.
DIONYZA, wife to Cleon.
THAISA, daughter to Simonides.
MARINA, daughter to Pericles and Thaisa.
LYCHORIDA, nurse to Marina.
A Bawd.
Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, Sailors, Pirates, Fishermen, and Messengers.
DIANA.
GOWER, as Chorus.

SCENE: Dispersedly in various countries.