Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio. Modern editors generally agree that Shakespeare is responsible for the main portion of the play after scene 9 that follows the story of Pericles and Marina. The first two acts detailing the many voyages of Pericles are thought to ...
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio. Modern editors generally agree that Shakespeare is responsible for the main portion of the play after scene 9 that follows the story of Pericles and Marina. The first two acts detailing the many voyages of Pericles are thought to have been written by a relatively untalented reviser or collaborator, possibly George Wilkins.
The play draws upon the two sources: Confessio Amantis (1393) of John Gower, a poet and contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer this provides the story of Apollonius of Tyre; and the Lawrence Twine prose version of Gower's tale, The Pattern of Painful Adventures, dating from ca. 1576, reprinted in 1607. A third related work is The Painful Adventures of Pericles published in 1608. But this seems to be a "novelization" of the play, stitched together with bits...
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