"Pericles" is a pivotal work in the evolution of Shakespearean drama. It stands at the threshold leading to the wonderful world of Shakespearean romances, the "fairy tale dramas"; the workshop where the "sweet swan of Avon" will conceive yet another - the last - transformation of his.

The tale of Pericles takes us by the hand and introduces us to this "brave new world" of Shakespearean drama: a world that is poetic, strange, dangerous, and enchanted; a world of waters and spirits, healing music, restorative magic, and esoteric knowledge.

With the main cohesive element being the sea voyage, an incredible story unfolds from extreme events: incest, murder attempts, rape and prostitution, storms and shipwrecks, piracy, resurrections, divine revelations, magic and occultism - and everywhere, until the end, the sea: an element of continuity and discontinuity, salvation and danger, life and death, birth and rebirth.