History Theatre / PericlesPrinceOfTyre

** Antiochus tries to have Pericles killed, because Pericles has figured out that Antiochus practices incest.

** Thaliard the assassin decides not to kill Pericles, based on the logic that traveling by boat is certain death.
** The folks who run the brothel see Marina as far too bad at being a "bad girl", since her IncorruptiblePurePureness is ruining their business.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The entire final third of the story to varying degrees, although the appearance of [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyOlympians Diana]] could imply that this is her [[DeusExMachina divine influence]] rewarding their virtue.

** Literally, in the form of Diana telling Pericles where to find Thasia.

* EasyEvangelism: How Marina keeps her virginity: converting the Brothel's potential customers. Anybody who wants to bed her is moved by her beauty and purity into leaving her alone.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Marina attracts the hatred of Dionyza for being more beautiful than

A {{comedy}} / {{romance}} by Creator/WilliamShakespeare. It's one of his less-known and less-liked plays, and it's theorized that it was co-written with Creator/GeorgeWilkins, due to the stylistic discontinuity between the first two acts and the remaining three. It doesn't help that the surviving text is corrupt, possibly a pirate copy from memory; various scholarly attempts have been made to produce an improved version. It is certainly based on the ChivalricRomance ''Apollonius'', which has never been noted for coherent plot -- the "moldy tale" Ben Jonson termed it -- which could not have helped.

A {{comedy}} / {{romance}} by Creator/WilliamShakespeare. It's one of his less-known and less-liked plays, and it's theorized that it was co-written or script-doctored by a less accomplished writer, due to the stylistic discontinuity between the first two acts and the remaining three. It doesn't help that the surviving text is corrupt, possibly a pirate copy from memory; various scholarly attempts have been made to produce an improved version. It is certainly based on the ChivalricRomance ''Apollonius'', which has never been noted for coherent plot -- the "moldy tale" Ben Jonson termed it -- which could not have helped.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The entire final third of the story to varying degrees, although the appearance of [[ClassicalMythologyOlympians Diana]] could imply that this is her [[DeusExMachina divine influence]] rewarding their virtue.

The purchase is to make men glorious;''

* DeusExMachina: Marina is saved from being killed by Dionyza's servant when pirates attack and abduct her.

* EasyEvangelism: How Marina keeps her virginity: converting the Brothel's potential customers. See IncorruptiblePurePureness, below.
* EngagementChallenge: Antiochus's riddle, which is actually a trap to prevent his daughter from getting married. If you can't solve it you die, and if you solve it, you'll also die for [[HeKnowsTooMuch knowing too much]]. Not that anyone's lived to figure out that second part...

* GreenEyedMonster: Dionyza, who hates Marina for showing up her daughter.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Why Antiochus tries to have Pericles killed
** This is also the reason why Dionyza poisons Leonine, the servant she hired to kill Marina.
* IdiotBall: Antiochus for putting down that he and his daughter are having incest in a riddle. It seems like Pericles is the first to figure out the (fairly obvious) meaning, but it could be that Antiochus simply kills everyone who takes the challenge and claims they got it wrong.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Marina is so pure that she is able to [[VirginTension maintain her virginity]] by [[HeelRealization convincing every customer at the brothel to go and live a more virtuous life]].
** It's so effective that it borders on a JediMindTrick or straight-up HeelFaceBrainwashing.
* LukeYouAreMyFather: When Pericles and Marina meet again for the first time in 14 years.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Thaliard the assassin decides not to kill Pericles based on the logic that traveling by boat is certain death.
** The folks who run the brothel see Marina as this since her IncorruptiblePurePureness is ruining their business.
* MadeASlave: Marina. Thankfully, [[IncorruptiblePurePureness she]] is so bad for their business that they can't wait to get rid of her.

* OneSceneWonder: Antiochus and his daughter drive the conflict for the first act of the play. Both characters only appear in the first scene and never physically appear again, though their death is mentioned by Helicanus.
** The three fishermen who save Pericles when he washes up on the shores of Pentapolis only appear in that scene. They are, however, the closest thing the play has to "clowns" and provide plenty of comedic dialogue in their brief time on stage.
* OnlyMostlyDead: Thaisa

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Marina
* TakingTheVeil: Thaisa, who becomes a nun in the temple of Apollo.
* TearsOfRemorse: Marina, when she stepped on a worm.
* TenderTears: See Tears of Remorse

* VillainousIncest: Antiochus and his (very willing) daughter.