Pericles
Prince of Tyre

This edition shows Shakespeare's Pericles to be a unified aesthetic experience.

William Shakespeare (Author), Doreen DelVecchio (Edited by), Antony Hammond (Edited by)

9780521297103, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 22 January 1998

226 pages, 15 b/w illus. 1 map
22.8 x 15.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.38 kg

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. Over the last two decades there has been a resurgence of theatrical interest in Shakespeare's Pericles, which has been rescued from comparative neglect and is now frequently performed. The editors reject the current orthodoxies, that the text is seriously corrupt and that the play is of divided authorship. They show how the 1609 quarto has features in common with the first quarto of King Lear, now widely regarded as being based on Shakespeare's manuscript. Likewise they regard the arguments concerning divided authorship as unproven and misleading. Instead they show the play to be a unified aesthetic experience.

Introduction (date, sources, authorship, performance, the play)
Note on the text
List of characters, The Play: Supplementary notes
Textual analysis
Supplementary notes
Textual analysis
Reading list.

Subject Areas: Shakespeare plays [DDS]