ABSTRACT
Pericles: Critical Essays brings together the most essential critical essays and theatrical reviews of Shakespeare's play from the late 17th century to the present, providing a representative gathering of critical opinion of Pericles over the centuries. David Skeele's introduction identifies the critical issues and problems the play has raised, cites and evaluates significant critical works, and gives readers a guide to research on the play.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Prologue to Marina*
chapter |11 pages
Defense
EDMOND MALONE of Shakespeare renders of my own judgment that I express my dissent from his decision; but
part |2 pages
of Tyre
chapter |5 pages
Shakespeare's Pericles'
WILLIAM WATKISS LLOYD of individual character I think we may of his
chapter |3 pages
Doubtful Plays: Pericles'
HENRY TYRELL of this drama to Shakespeare; still, if upon perusal it turned out to
chapter |18 pages
On the
G. FLEAY of this play, we may, I think, take it at once for It has been so long of note that this is the case, that it cannot be worth
chapter |33 pages
grief'-too famous we
fame-is transfigured as from human beauty to of Marina's look with that of of act." A pre- of Helena and
chapter |54 pages
ofI mmortality); and of Coleridge's remark-
of Shakespeare's last of the discovery of royal blood are of Tudor royalism: but he invariably develops that, of Timon's innate aristocracy, into something more
chapter |4 pages
Pericles and the
COPPELIA KAHN of Shakespeare's career, the family romance moves to its second stage: of double than
chapter |6 pages
she-not the
king-becomes the deadly answer to the riddle: of incest ("I sought of the promis- of Antiochus's vengeance, imagistically she-not he-is the first bearer of death, the "fair Hesperides, / With golden
chapter |6 pages
"If he be none of mine, my sanctity / Will to my sense
of course, her husband and must of her "sanctity." Her time in the Temple of of her sensuality.
chapter |26 pages
"The
Greece LISA HOPKINS of travels which take him from Tyre to Antioch, back to Tyre, thence to
chapter |18 pages
"For
DAVID SKEELE of the nineteenth century, his Sadler's Wells Theatre had already
chapter |3 pages
A Review of Robert Atkins'
EDWARD SHANKS It is a little unfair to go to the "Old Vic" only when a curiosity is to be seen
chapter |7 pages
Pericles with Great Feeling [Boston Shakespeare Co., 1983]*
KEVIN KELLY It deliberately and
chapter |15 pages
Pericles at the Royal National Theatre [1994]
MELISSA GIBSON of Pericles opened on May 19, 1994, on of Britain's Royal National Theatre. It received reviews run- of opinion from "brilliant" to "a real mess." The controversy
