Pericles The Oxford Shakespeare

Name: Pericles The Oxford Shakespeare
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ISBN: 9780199536832

ISBN-10: 019953683X

ISBN-13: 9780199536832

Edition: 2008

Authors: William. Shakespeare, George Wilkins, Roger Warren, Gary Taylor, Macd P. Jackson

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Pericles was one of the most popular plays of its time, and it has regained much of that popularity today. In a wide-ranging introduction, Roger Warren draws on his experience of the play in rehearsal and performance to explore the reasons for this enduring popularity. Unfortunately Pericles survives only in a corrupt text, the Quarto of 1609, in which many passages are nonsensical and others appear to be missing altogether. Earlier editions have merely cleaned-up the Quarto, but this edition offers a conjectural reconstruction of what the original play might have been like. It draws upon George Wilkin's The Painful Adventures of Pericles (1608) to emend some of the errors and missing…

Book details

List price: $10.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English