Overview

This edition of Pericles in the Oxford Shakespeare series is the only single-volume, modern-spelling edition both to offer a reconstruction of the original play and to reproduce the corrupt Quarto text of 1609 exactly as first printed. It also contains an on-page commentary and notes explains meaning, staging, language, and allusions as wel las being illustrated with production photographs and related art. there is also a detailed introduction explaining the complex textual situation and Shakespeare's probable collaboration with George Wilkins.