BBC Television Shakespeare - Season 1 Episode 34 Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Prince Pericles, visiting Antioch, solves King Antiochus's riddle to his daughter's suitors - the answer is that the King has had an incestuous relationship with his daughter. Pericles realizes he must escape to Tyre, and from there he goes to Tarsus to relieve a famine. Pursued by Antiochus's men, his ship is wrecked on the shores of Pentapolis and he marries Thaisa, the daughter of its King. Thaisa gives birth to a daughter, Marina, at sea, and in a great storm Thaisa is thrown overboard in a sea-chest. Coming to land at Ephesus, she believes Pericles is drowned and becomes a priestess of Diana.Pericles arranges for Marina to be brought up by Cleon of Tarsus and his wife Dionyza, and returns to Tyre. Fourteen years go by, and Dionyza, jealous of Marina, is about to have her murdered, when Marina is kidnapped by pirates, who send her to a brothel in Mytilene. Cleon tells Pericles that Marina is dead. Meanwhile, in Mytilene Marina's purity triumphs, startling the governor of the city,
First Air Date: Dec 03, 1978
Last Air date: Apr 27, 1985
Season: 7 Season
Episode: 68 Episode
Runtime: 150 minutes
IMDb: 5.20/10 by 5.00 users
Popularity: 41.622
Language: English
Episode
Romeo and Juliet
King Richard the Second
As You Like It
Julius Caesar
Measure For Measure
King Henry the Eighth
King Henry the Fourth, Part I
King Henry the Fourth, Part II
King Henry the Fifth
Twelfth Night, or, What You Will
The Tempest
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Taming of the Shrew
The Merchant of Venice
All's Well That Ends Well
The Winter's Tale
Timon of Athens
Antony and Cleopatra
Othello
Troilus and Cressida
A Midsummer Night's Dream
King Lear
The Merry Wives of Windsor
King Henry the Sixth, Part I
King Henry the Sixth, Part II
King Henry the Sixth, Part III
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
Cymbeline
Macbeth
The Comedy of Errors
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
The Life and Death of King John
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Much Ado About Nothing
Love's Labour's Lost
Titus Andronicus
Similar Movies
Recomendation Movies
