Pericles (Arden Shakespeare, Third Series)

by William Shakespeare, Suzanne Gossett (Editor), Ann Thompson (Editor), David Scott Kastan (Editor), H. R. Woudhuysen (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781903436844
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/01/2004
Series:	The Arden Shakespeare Third Series , #3
Edition description:	3rd Revised ed.
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time.

ANN THOMPSON is Emeritus Professor in English at King' s College London UK.

David Scott Kastan is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University, USA.

Henry Woudhuysen is Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, UK.

Professor Richard Proudfoot served as Senior General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare for 35 years, until his retirement from King's in 1999. In 2001 The Arden Shakespeare published Proudfoot's Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Canon a critical overview of the scholarly achievements made in the field of Shakespeare studies by the end of the twentieth century.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Table of Contents

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