Pericles The Oxford Shakespeare

by Shakespeare, William; Wilkins, George; Warren, Roger; Taylor, Gary; Jackson, Macd. P.

• ISBN13: 9780198129325
• ISBN10: 0198129327
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Pericles was one of the most popular plays of its time, and it has regained much of that popularity in the modern theater. Roger Warren draws upon his extensive experience of the play in rehearsal and performance to suggest why. Pericles survives only in a corrupt text, and this edition offers a conjectural reconstruction of what the original play might have been like. It also presents the play as a collaboration between Shakespeare and the Jacobean dramatist George Wilkins.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Introduction	1	(80)
Preliminaries: Theatre, Text, Authors	1	(3)
Shakespeare and George Wilkins	4	(4)
'Pericles' and Shakespeare's Other Plays	8	(5)
Origins	13	(7)
The Modern Revival of 'Pericles'	20	(10)
Ancient Gower	30	(6)
Antioch and After	36	(2)
Pentapolis	38	(3)
Ephesus: Language and Theatricality	41	(6)
Now to Marina-and Mytilene	47	(6)
The Music of the Spheres: Pericles and Marina	53	(7)
Authorship	60	(11)
The Text: Corruption and Reconstruction	71	(10)
Editorial Procedures	81	(6)
Abbreviations and References	82	(5)
PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE	87	(144)
APPENDIX A A Diplomatic Reprint of The First Quarto of 'Pericles' (1609)	231	(56)
APPENDIX B Passages from Wilkins's 'Painful Adventures of Pericles'	287	(4)
APPENDIX C Attribution of Emendations	291	(10)
Index	301