Summary Act 1
Gower, a poet, appears to set the stage for Act I. Antiochus, a king, establishes Antioch, a city in Syria. He takes a wife who dies leaving behind a beautiful daughter whom the father takes a fancy to and vice-versa. Custom renders their sin a non-issue. To preserve his abominable arrangement and prevent his daughter from marrying an eligible bachelor, Antiochus contrives every suitor to enter into a bargain which invariably leads the suitor to his death: Every suitor is presented with a riddle which if he solves will win him the King's daughter and which if he fails to solve will cost him his head. Pericles, the Prince of Tyre, has come to Antioch to ask for the King's (Antiochus') daughter's hand in marriage. When the King's daughter, regaled in a bride's gown, is presented, Pericles
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