Pericles

OverthepasttwodecadestherehasbeenaresurgenceoftheatricalinterestinShakespeare\'sPericles,whichhasbeenrescuedfromcomparativeneglectandisnowfrequentlyperformed.Thisdevelopmentischartedintheintroductiontothisedition,whichdiffersradicallyfromanyothercurrentlyavailable.DoreenDelVecchioandAntonyHammondrejectthecriticalorthodoxiesofacorrupttextanddividedauthorship.Insteadtheyshowtheplaytobeaunifiedaestheticexperience.TheresultisamoreenthusiaticviewofPericlesthanthatofothereditions.--ThistextreferstothePaperbackedition.