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A 5 page essay that examines Shakespeare's plays Pericles and Cymbeline in regards to how they are structured. The analysis takes the stance of what would have been lost, as well as gained, if Shakespeare had chosen to propel these romances toward tragic endings. No additional sources cited.
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a hairs breadth away from being tragedy rather than romance. The following analysis of the structure of each of these works will demonstrate what would have been lost, as
well as gained, if Shakespeare had chosen to add these plays to his tragedies, rather than his comedies (which in Shakespeares time was any play that ended happily rather than
tragically). The structure of this play involves numerous sufferings inflicted on Pericles and his family, who are split apart both by distance and apparent death. However, the conclusion
involves redemptive reunion. There are quite a few places where a change in the plot of Pericles would have led towards tragedy. First of all, had Pericles not answered
the riddle correctly or won the jousting competition, either incident would have ended with his death. However, if this had happened, there also would not have been a play,
therefore, it seems appropriate to concentrate any restructuring on the plot manipulations that bring the principal characters back together for their happy ending. First of all, if Pericles had not
traveled to Myteline after erroneously being told that his child, Marina, was dead, he would not have required a healer for his melancholy and Marina, as a healer, would never
have been called to his ship. Happily reunited with his daughter, Pericles is exhausted and sleeps. In his sleep Diana instructs him to visit her temple in Ephesus, where
his wife, Thaisa, is in Dianas service. Obeying the goddess, Pericles does as she instructs and the whole family is reunited. If any of these actions had varied, the
general thrust of the play would have remained tragic. While cloaked in Greco-Roman mythology, the structure of the play is that of a Christian morality play. The principal characters
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