SOURCE: "The Shadow of Antioch: Sexuality in Pericles, Prince of Tyre," in Parallel Lives: Spanish and English National Drama 1580-1680, edited by Louise and Peter Fothergill-Payne, Bucknell University Press, 1991, pp. 167-79.
In the following essay first presented at an International Conference in 1987, Leggatt describes the specter of incest that hangs over all of the sexual relationships in Pericles.
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