Pericles by William ShakespeareMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
This was wildly popular when it came out – audiences really responded to the divinely-assisted reversal of fortune in the back half. The play feels quite flat to me – Pericles is a bit of a heroic non-entity who does the right thing and is eventually rewarded with the restoration of his family. Bearing misfortune nobly, and resisting the temptations of the world, may have resonated more strongly in a religious age where random ‘acts of god’ regularly ruined lives.
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