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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-29710-3 - Pericles, Prince of Tyre Edited by Doreen Delvecchio and Antony Hammond Frontmatter More information THE NEW CAMBRIDGE SHAKESPEARE general editor Brian Gibbons associate general editor A. R. Braunmuller, University of California, Los Angeles From the publication of the first volumes in 1984 the General Editor of the New Cambridge Shakespeare was Philip Brockbank and the Associate General Editors were Brian Gibbons and Robin Hood. From 1990 to 1994 the General Editor was Brian Gibbons and the Associate General Editors were A. R. Braunmuller and Robin Hood. PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE 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. This development is charted in the Introduction to this edition, which differs radically from any other currently available. Doreen DelVecchio and Antony Hammond reject the current ortho- doxies: 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,nowwidely 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. The result is a view of Pericles far more enthusiastic than that of other editors. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-29710-3 - Pericles, Prince of Tyre Edited by Doreen Delvecchio and Antony Hammond Frontmatter More information THE NEW CAMBRIDGE SHAKESPEARE All’s Well That Ends Well, edited by Russell Fraser Antony and Cleopatra, edited by David Bevington As You Like It, edited by Michael Hattaway The Comedy of Errors,editedbyT.S.Dorsch Coriolanus, edited by Lee Bliss Cymbeline, edited by Martin Butler Hamlet, edited by Philip Edwards Julius Caesar, edited by Marvin Spevack King Edward III, edited by Giorgio Melchiori TheFirstPartofKingHenryIV, edited by Herbert Weil and Judith Weil The Second Part of King Henry IV, edited by Giorgio Melchiori King Henry V, edited by Andrew Gurr TheFirstPartofKingHenryVI, edited by Michael Hattaway The Second Part of King Henry VI, edited by Michael Hattaway The Third Part of King Henry VI, edited by Michael Hattaway King Henry VIII, edited by John Margeson King John,editedbyL.A.Beaurline The Tragedy of King Lear, edited by Jay L. 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Halio The First Quarto of King Richard III, edited by Peter Davison The First Quarto of Othello, edited by Scott McMillin The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet, edited by Lukas Erne The Taming of a Shrew: The 1594 Quarto, edited by Stephen Roy Miller © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-29710-3 - Pericles, Prince of Tyre Edited by Doreen Delvecchio and Antony Hammond Frontmatter More information PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE Edited by DOREEN DELVECCHIO ANTONY HAMMOND © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-29710-3 - Pericles, Prince of Tyre Edited by Doreen Delvecchio and Antony Hammond Frontmatter More information University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521297103 C Cambridge University Press 1998 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1998 Reprinted 2006 3rd printing 2010 969th printing 2015 Printed in the United Kingdom by Clays, St Ives plc. A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616. (Pericles) Pericles, Prince of Tyre / edited by Doreen DelVecchio, Antony Hammond. p. cm. – (New Cambridge Shakespeare) Includes bibliographical references. isbn 978 0 521 22907 4 (hardback) – isbn 978 0 521 29710 3 (paperback) 1. Princes – Lebanon – Tyre – Drama. i. DelVecchio, Doreen. ii. Hammond, Antony. iii. Title. iv. Series: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616. Works. 1984. Cambridge University Press. pb2830. a2d45 1998 822.33 –dc21 97-1358 cip isbn 978-0-521-22907-4 Hardback isnb 978-0-521-29710-3 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-29710-3 - Pericles, Prince of Tyre Edited by Doreen Delvecchio and Antony Hammond Frontmatter More information CONTENTS List of illustrations page vi Preface and acknowledgements vii List of abbreviations and conventions ix Introduction 1 Date 1 Sources 1 Authorship 8 Performance and reception 15 The play 27 Note on the text 79 List of characters 82 The Play 85 Supplementary notes 194 Textual analysis 197 Reading list 211 v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-29710-3 - Pericles, Prince of Tyre Edited by Doreen Delvecchio and Antony Hammond Frontmatter More information ILLUSTRATIONS 1 Map of the eastern Mediterranean facing page 1 2 Genius and Amans, from Gower’s Confessio Amantis,BLMS. Egerton 1991 fol. 7v (by permission of the British Library) page 4 3 Marina’s tomb (Act 4, Scene 4), in Nugent Monck’s 1947 production at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Shakespeare Centre Library) 19 4 Gower as calypso singer (Edric Connor) in Tony Richardson’s 1958 production at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Shakespeare Centre Library) 21 5 Pericles and Thaisa (Ian Richardson and Susan Fleetwood) begin their dance (Act 2, Scene 3) in Terry Hands’s 1969 production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Shakespeare Centre Library) 22 6 Gower (Emrys James) as a Welsh bard in Terry Hands’s 1969 production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (by permission of Reg Wilson) 23 7 Simultaneous staging in Act 3 in Phyllida Lloyd’s production, Royal National Theatre, 1994 (by permission of Ivan Kyncl) 26 8 The theophany in Act 5, Scene 1, in Phyllida Lloyd’s production, Royal National Theatre, 1994 (by permission of Ivan Kyncl) 26 9 Gower’s tomb and monument in Southwark Cathedral 28 10 ‘As yon grim looks do testify’ (Prologue 40); a conjectural reconstruction of Act 1, Scene 1,byC.WalterHodges 39 11 A conjectural reconstruction of the original staging of the theophany by C. Walter Hodges 40 12 Rachel Kempson as Dioniza, showing what a Wicked Queen should look like, in Tony Richardson’s 1958 production at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Shakespeare Centre Library) 41 13 The impresa scene (Act 2, Scene 2): Thaisa (Sally Edwards) on the stairs between upper and lower stage, Simonides (Russell Dixon) enthroned aloft, in David Thacker’s 1989 production at the Swan (Shakespeare Centre Library) 43 14 The resuscitation of Thaisa (Act 3, Scene 2) in Ron Daniels’s 1979 production at The Other Place: Clyde Pollitt as Cerimon, Emily Richard as Thaisa (Shakespeare Centre Library) 58 15 Antiochus (Morgan Sheppard) orates over the enigmatical mask of the Daughter: Act 1, Scene 1, in Terry Hands’s 1969 production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (by permission of Reg Wilson) 66 16 Griffith Jones as Gower in Ron Daniels’s 1979 production at The Other Place (Shakespeare Centre Library) 74 vi © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-29710-3 - Pericles, Prince of Tyre Edited by Doreen Delvecchio and Antony Hammond Frontmatter More information PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS When we first proposed editing Pericles for the New Cambridge Shakespeare, our enthusiasm for it had been fired by a flawed but generally remarkably successful production at the Stratford Festival in Ontario. Though both of us had been teaching Shakespeare at McMaster University, in neither of our courses had Pericles played a large role. It was something of an overwhelming experience for us, then, to find it as stunningly successful a play for the stage as the Stratford production proved. This led us to propose to ‘break a lance’ for it in our edition, and so we began our work from a radically different point of view from that of many editors of the play, whose first reaction to the task seems to have been ‘Oh, dear’.