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.