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'Pericles': A Play That Demands A Bard Attitude

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20041107
Author:Philip Kennicott

Beethoven wrote nine symphonies, but you can go years without hearing No. 8 on a concert program. Emily Bronte wrote "Wuthering Heights," a staple of every romantic-literature course, but her poetry is known (and loved) only by hard-core fans. And Shakespeare wrote more than three dozen plays, but it has taken the Shakespeare Theatre 17 years to get around to staging "Pericles, Prince of Tyre."

Some geniuses produce a consistent stream of flawless works, but most have a few runts among the litter. "Pericles" is Shakespeare's runt.

It is an unsummarizable, five-act string of implausibilities, ...

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