Really don’t know what was going on with this one. I guess I was waiting for the opening acts about the incest to somehow come back to haunt Pericles and his daughter, perhaps I was afraid they would mirror the first father-daughter couple by mistake in a very tragic turn (v much in the style of Titus Andronicus, just pure awfulness), but no.

Unsurprisingly critics think that Shakespeare only wrote parts of this, presumably the latter acts, which are a lot more cohesive. I enjoyed the scenery, the nautical vibes, Marina is a great name, but that’s really about it. The things that happen to her hardly follow any logic and I’m not particularly charmed by her either. Also the deus ex machina at the end came out of nowhere, and for what. I think this was just a bit of a mess, even though the writing is fairly good.