Pericles (Vol. 79) | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Abraham, Lyndy. “Weddings, Funerals, and Incest: Alchemical Emblems and Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre.Journal of English and German Philology 98, no. 4 (October 1999): 523-49.

Argues that Pericles is a non-Christian miracle play that conveys its meaning through the use of alchemical emblems.

Arthos, John. “Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Study in the Dramatic Use of Romantic Narrative.” Shakespeare Quarterly 4, no. 3 (July 1953): 257-70.

Analyzes the construction of Pericles to determine how Shakespeare was able to combine romantic material with the dramatic techniques he had developed in his comedies and tragedies.

Fawkner, H. W. Shakespeare's Miracle Plays: Pericles, Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1992, 194 p.

Book-length study of three plays from the...

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