Binding: Paperback
Description: The heroic story of Pericles adapted for new audiences by Ellen Mc Laughlin. Shakespeare's romance Pericles follows Pericles the Prince of Tyre on a series of adventures across the Mediterranean Sea. Navigating one heroic challenge after another Pericles strives to be reunited with his wife and child. Ellen Mc Laughlin's translation of Pericles illuminates Shakespeare's text untangling syntax and bringing forth the poetry of the verse. An encounter between the contemporary and the iconic this translation brings the play to life as audiences would have experienced it in Shakespeare's time. This translation of Pericles was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project which commissioned new translations of thirty - nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present work from The Bard in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights screenwriters and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the twenty - first century. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print a new First Folio for a new era.
Title: Pericles
Author(s): Mclaughlin Ellen
Publisher: Arizona Center For Medieval & Renaissance Studies Us
Barcode: 9780866987790
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 9/19/2023
Category: Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights