Pericles

1608-1609
Shakespeare
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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Our title-character hero solves a riddle that reveals that a neighbour king is incestually involved with his daughter.  (The riddle is painfully obvious and it's unclear why this is used as a way to weed out suitors for the said daughter.)  So Pericles has to run for his life from the evil king, who later conveniently dies offstage.  Then Pericles marries a different king's daughter, who seems to also die offstage, giving birth to their daughter, Marina.  But it turns out that she's not really dead, so she's revived and becomes a priestess of Diana.  Meanwhile, Pericles has Marina raised by friends for the next fifteen years or so.  But the foster mother pays to have her killed off, except Marina is kidnapped by pirates, and then ends up in a brothel, where her purity makes the customers try to be more virtuous.  In the end, father and daughter, and then mother, are happily reunited.

Probably the most ludicrous plot in all of WS, but much less bloody and racist than Titus Andronicus.