this one has dRaMa

pericles prince of tyre is visiting a nearby kingdom but discovers a plot to murder him so he flees the kingdom and leaves a trusted man on his throne. he voyages across the sea and brings grains to a starving kingdom. then he departs again but is caught in a storm which wrecks his ship. he is picked up by fisherman and brought to another kingdom where a tournament for the princess’s hand is occurring. he wins and they marry and they become pregnant. they decide to voyage back to Tyre but on the voyage the wife has the baby, Marina, and then dies. they have a funeral at sea and the body turns up at a temple of diana where they somehow nurse her back to health and she’s no longer dead and lives out her life in the temple. then pericles leaves his new baby with the grain kingdom and asks them to raise her and he heads back to Tyre. 14 years pass, don’t really know why he left her that long, but Marina is now being targeted by the grain kingdom that she is living in but while the murder is about to happen she is kidnapped by pirates and taken to an island and sold to a brothel. In this brothel she somehow talks every suitor out of it and eventually meets the governor. Pericles hears of his daughters supposed murder and goes into mourning but visits this island by chance and happens to meet her and realize it’s his daughter he hasn’t seen in years. He then gets a vision from Diana to go get his wife from the temple (which is honestly unrealistic Diana behavior) and he does and the whole family is reunited huzzah

honestly what a trip

also each big section had a man explaining the year gaps via rhyming couplets which was just awful