Pericles (Arden Shakespeare, Third Series) » (3rd Edition)

Suzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history, with an introduction showing how the play's performance history has paralled the criticism. It then gives an interpretation of this two-generation romance, with its successive male and female central characters, based on a reading 'through the family', and influenced by the feminist and new historicist criticism of the last two decades. The edition integrates cumulative research on Shakespeare's collaborative authorship and the transmission of the text without rewriting the play or ignoring years of emendations.

The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third series, Arden offers the best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume guides you to a deeper understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's work.

This edition of Pericles provides:

• A clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards of scholarship.
• Detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text.
• A full, illustrated introduction to the play's historical, cultural and performance contexts.
• An in-depth survey of critical approaches to the play.
• A full index to the introduction and notes.
• A select bibliography of references and further reading.

With a wealth of helpful and incisive commentary, the Arden Shakespeare is the finest edition of Shakespeare you can find.

List of illustrations General Editors preface Preface INTRODUCTION: Everyone with claps can sound: the popularity of Pericles Incke, and paper: text and printing history - The condition of Q - Proposed explanations for Q - Early reprints To foster is not always to preserve: editing Pericles - The editorial task - Editing and interpretation Her art sisters the natural roses: the creation of Pericles - Winged time: date and circumstances - Fit counsellor and servant for a prince: evidence for collaboration - From ashes ancient Gower is come: sources of Pericles - What pageantry, what feats, what shows: the theatrical context The stages of our story: Gower and the structure of Pericles It hath been sung at festivals: production history Interpretation and critical history - The heavens through you increase our wonder: reading Pericles ideologically - A book of all that monarchs do: reading Pericles politically - Hark you, sir, do you know where ye are?: reading Pericles geographically - You not your child well-loving: reading Pericles through the family - Make us love your goodly gifts: Pericles and the gift - Her way to go with warrant: imperatives for a conclusion Collaboration, one last time PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE Longer notes
Appendix on casting Doubling chart Abbreviations and references Index