• What happens in this bonkers play?
• How does ecocriticism give Pericles its sense of place?
• What does a character’s use of verse or prose reveal about the way they feel about their physical environment?
• Pericles’s metaphysical places –> the weather outside in conversation with how characters are weathering their interior storms

Episode Transcript and Bibliography available here.

• Introduction: the oddities of Pericles
  • Authorship shared with George Wilkins
  • Many location changes contribute to an episodic plot 
• Applications of Theory
  • Ecofeminist exploration of the ocean and Marina
  • Investigation of liminality of location and character
  • Marina as a monstrous in-between figure 
    • Plot twist – that’s a good thing!
  • Adaptation and authorship
• Text from Wilkins’ novel Painfull Adventures of Pericles
  • What is gained by taking a holistic approach to the liminal text of the play?

Episode Transcript and Bibliography available here.