THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE

• Pericles survives only in a corrupt text, which cannot be performed exactly as it stands. This is the first single-volume, fully-annotated text to attempt to help performers and readers by offering a reconstruction of the original play. It also reproduces the text of 1609 exactly as first printed, enabling users of the edition to see how the reconstruction was made, and why it was necessary. It is therefore the most comprehensive edition currently available.
• The text draws upon Jacobean dramatist George Wilkins's The Painful Adventures of Pericles to emend some of the Quarto's errors and to supply some missing material.
• The introduction argues the case for authorial collaboration between Shakespeare and Wilkins and also draws upon Warren's extensive experience of the play in rehearsal and performance to suggest why it is regaining its original popularity in the modern theatre.
• Reprints the entire Quarto text in an appendix, together with passages from Wilkins's narrative, so readers can see how the reconstruction has been made.
• The only edition to be based on the Oxford Complete Works (1986), modified in the light of subsequent productions.

Readership: Readers and students of Shakespeare, English Literature, drama, Elizabethan studies

William Shakespeare