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.

The latest Arden edition of Shakespeare's Pericles

About the Author
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time. Suzanne Gossett (Ph.D. Princeton) is Professor Emerita of English at Loyola University Chicago. She is a General Editor of Arden Early Modern Drama and has recently served as president of the Shakespeare Association of America.


Book Information
ISBN 9781903436851
Author William Shakespeare
Format Paperback
Page Count 480
Imprint The Arden Shakespeare
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 524g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 24mm