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Gazing upon the ‘glory’ of Simonides’ court, Pericles considers his own downtrodden fortune and moralizes his fate:
I see that Time’s the King of men; He’s both their parent, and he is their grave, And gives them what he will, not what they crave.
(ii. iii.45–7)
‘Those designs of time are saying something’ — James Dickey, The Zodiac
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See E. A. J. Honigmann, Shakespeare: Seven Tragedies (New York: Harper and Row, 1976) pp. 30–53;
and Moody E. Prior, The Search for a Hero in Julius Caesar’, Renaissance Drama, n.s. 2 (1969) esp. 94–9.
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Kastan, D.S. (1982). To Ride upon the Dial’s Point. In: Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06145-7_8
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