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Characters: Pericles

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**Gower:**Chorus or narrator for the play.

Antiochus: The king of Antioch

The Daughter of Antiochus

Pericles: The prince of Tyre.

Thaliard: A lord of Antioch. 

Helicanus: A lord of Tyre. 

**Escanes:**A lord of Tyre.

Cleon: The governor of Tharsus and husband of Dionyza. 

**Dionyza:**The wife of Cleon. 

**Simonides:**The king of Pentapolis.

**Thaisa:**The daughter of Simonides and wife of Pericles. 

**Marina:**The daughter of Pericles and Thaisa.

**Leonine:**A servant of Dionyza. 

Lychorida: Nurse to Marina.

**Cerimon:**A lord of Ephesus.. 

Philemon: A servant of Cerimon.

Lysimachas: The govenor of Mytilene. 

Pander

Bawd: The wife of Pander.

Boult: A servant of Pander.

Diana: A goddess appearing to Pericles.

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