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Margaret Jane Kidnie

is a professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.
Pericles: A Modern Perspective
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Pericles: A Modern Perspective

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Marina Singing Before Pericles, 1825. Pericles is a play haunted by loss. Sometimes loss is figured as a sudden and calamitous separation from one’s friends and belongings, as when Pericles at the top of the second act is washed ashore…