Chicago Shakespeare Theater, in conjunction with the Royal Shakespeare Company, presents PERICLES. After a thirty year absence, RSC returns to Chicago with its production of a lesser known Shakespearean play. Pericles is a young ruler exploring other lands. In Act One, a shipwreck brings him to the shores of Pentapolis where he falls in love and marries a princess, Thaisa. When giving birth to their daughter on a ship, Thaisa dies and is buried at sea. A distraught Pericles gives their baby daughter, Marina, to someone else to raise. Act Two is fourteen years later and features a still grieving Pericles, a plucky Marina and a mysterious priestess at the Temple of the Goddess Diana.