by
William Shakespeare
Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play probably not written solely by William Shakespeare. Pericles, the young ruler of Tyre escapes from Antiochus, King of Antioch, to avoid getting killed by him for a controversial riddle. En-route, he helps by giving grain to Tarsus, a famine affected city being ruled by Cleon. A storm reaches h..