Pericles The Oxford Shakespeare

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.

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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

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Pericles The Oxford Shakespeare

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