Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Pericles, Prince of Tyre,a romantic drama by Shakespeare , the first two acts probably written by George Wilkins : there may have been an element of collaboration between the two men. It was composed between 1606 and 1608 , when it was registered and when Wilkins's prose narrative The Painfull Adventures of Pericles Prince of Tyre, which was based on a performance of the play, was published. A textually corrupt quarto of Pericles appeared in 1609 and was reprinted five times; the play was omitted from the first folio of 1623 , but was included in the second issue of the third Folio of 1664 . The play is based on the story of Apollonius of Tyre in Gower 's Confessio Amantis and a prose version (itself derived from the Gesta Romanorum ), The Patterne of Painefull Adventures, registered 1576 and reprinted 1607 , by Laurence Twyne .
The play is presented by Gower, who acts as...
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