Pericles: Third Series

William Shakespeare

Cengage Learning EMEA, 2004 - Drama - 456 pages

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.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• the popularity of Pericles: 2
• text and printing history: 10
• Proposed explanations for Q: 15
• Early reprints: 30
• editing Pericles: 38
• Editing and interpretation: 43
• the creation of Pericles: 54
• evidence for collaboration: 62
• sources of Pericles: 70
• the theatrical context: 76
• Gower and the structure of Pericles: 81
• production history: 86
• Interpretation and critical history: 106
• reading Pericles ideologically: 112
• reading Pericles politically: 121
• reading Pericles geographically: 126
• reading Pericles through the family: 133
• Pericles and the gift: 146
• imperatives for a conclusion: 151
• Collaboration one last time: 161
• PERICLES PRINCE OF TYRE: 165
• Longer notes: 407
• Appendix on casting: 413
• Doubling chart: 416
• Abbreviations and references: 421
• Works by and partly by Shakespeare: 422
• Editions of Shakespeare collated: 423
• Other works cited: 425
• Modern productions cited: 440
• Index: 443

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Pericles: Third Series; Arden Shakespeare, William Shakespeare; Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare; Arden edition of the works, William Shakespeare; Works, William Shakespeare; Works. 1995, William Shakespeare
• Author: William Shakespeare
• Editors: Suzanne Gossett, Professor and Director of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Ann Thompson, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan, George M Bodman Professor of English David Scott Kastan, Richard Proudfoot, H. R. Woudhuysen
• Contributors: Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan, Richard Proudfoot, H. R. Woudhuysen
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA, 2004
• ISBN: 1903436842, 9781903436844
• Length: 456 pages
• Subjects: Drama / Shakespeare; Literary Criticism / Drama; Literary Criticism / Shakespeare