Michael Billington, The Guardian

May 6, 2014

Ben Jonson thought Pericles “a mouldy tale”, and few have been moved to disagree. But this late romance has its delights. One is the moment at the start of Act Three, when you can actually hear Shakespeare taking over from his unknown collaborator with “The god of this great vast rebuke these surges.” Another comes in the vivid realism of the scenes in a Mytilene brothel: “The poor Transylvanian is dead that lay with the little baggage.” And a third is the climactic father-daughter reunion between Pericles and Marina, which always moves an audience. […continued]

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