Intention and Objective in Original Cutting

    
      I chose to edit scenes 17 and 18 I chose two since scene 17 was a little short. In scene 17, Cleon and Dionyza are conversing after what they believe as Marina's death. After reading through once, I arrived to two goals in cutting: to heighten the evil in Dionyza and to portray Cleon more subserviently and inferior. Scene 18 consists of Gower's narration. There I wanted to avoid redundancy and highlight Marina's virtue.
     The first lines to get cut were, "O lady,

Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess

To equal any single crown o' the earth

I' the justice of compare!" 

In cutting this, I remove Cleon's opinion of Marina, mentioning her great virture. I intended that this would portray Cleon more subservient and inferior to Dionyza by not even allowing Cleon to not say his opinion on the matter. Since Cleon is considered evil by standing passively while evil Dionyza stomps around, this would remove the audience's ability to have sympathy for him, and therefore, both are equally as guilty and heinous. I didn't cut any of Dionyza's lines because there weren't too many, and each one of her lines reveals a lot about her evil nature. Also, it is in this scene when she explains how everyone stole the spotlight from her own daughter, displaying her reasons for hating Marina. 

     In scene 18, I cut, "From bourn to bourn, region to region.

By you being pardon'd, we commit no crime

To use one language in each several clime

Where our scenes seem to live. " I felt that explaining the role of a narrator was unnecessary. By scene 18, I know the audience would already discovered Gower's role as the narrator. 

Next I cut, Thetis, being proud, swallow'd some part o' the earth:

Therefore the earth, fearing to be o'erflow'd,

Hath Thetis' birth-child on the heavens bestow'd:

Wherefore she does, and swears she'll never stint,

Make raging battery upon shores of flint.' 

I cut this because I wanted to keep Diana consistent throughout the play. Introducing another mythical being into the play would break Diana's consistent flow. Since Shakespeare heavily focused on Diana in Pericles, I wanted to honor that and keep it constant.