Summary Act 2
Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers. Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts: 1,238,602, Quizzes: 344 CHORUS Gower enters to set the stage for Act II. Pericles, who is yet in Tharsus, receives a letter from a messenger. Helicanus, his deputy, writes of Thaliard's arrival in Tyre, of his intent to murder Pericles. He writes that it is no longer safe for Pericles to stay in Tharsus. And so Pericles sets out to sea. Alas, a raging tempest renders Pericles the lone survivor who is washed up on a unfamiliar shore. SCENE 1 The lone survivor of a shipwreck, Pericles chides the gods for trifling with his life, and begs them for an uneventful death which if they'll grant him now will prove to be a boon as he has l
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