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 appears to set the stage for Act III. One day a messenger arrives to Pentapolis with a letter. Simonides shows the letter to Pericles who in turn shows it to Thaisa. It's a letter urging Pericles to hasten his return to Tyre. Antiochus and his daughter are dead, and the lords of Tyre will make Helicanus their king unless Pericles returns within twelve months. So Pericles and Thaisa, who are now man and wife with a child on its way, set out to sea. They are halfway to Tyre when a terrible storm tosses the ship helter skelter. Midst the storm, Thaisa gives birth to a baby which is healthy and sou

