In Act II, the title character requests an instrument and then proceeds to play and sing to himself, but by Act III he cries to the Gods that they made him love their creation
In Act II, the title character requests an instrument and then proceeds to play and sing to himself, but by Act III he cries to the Gods that they made him love their creations, only to have them cruelly taken away. He agrees to have his wife's dead body thrown overboard from the ship on which he is traveling at the time, but curiously enough, the doctor Cerimon later discovers a chest bearing her body in the water. Lysimachus is smitten with that woman's daughter, who was saved by pirates after Dionyza hired Leonine to kill her, but then sold into prostitution by those same pirates. Aeschines and Helicanus are advisors to Thailart, who is hired to kill the title character. John Gower is the narrator of, FTP, what play which also features Marina, Thaisa, and Cleon - a work by Shakespeare named for the Prince of Tyre.
In Act II, the title character requests an instrument and then proceeds to play and sing to himself, but by Act III he cries to the Gods that they made him love their creations, only to have them cruelly taken away.
{Pericles}, Prince of Tyre