Pericles (Vol. 90) - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Cutts, John P. “Pericles: ‘downright violence.’” In Rich and Strange: A Study of Shakespeare's Last Plays, pp. 4-23. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1968.

Maintains that Pericles is an active protagonist whose rash behavior sets into motion the harmony/disharmony motif in Shakespeare's romance.

Fawkner, H. W. “Miracle.” In Shakespeare's Miracle Plays: Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale, pp. 13-56. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1992.

Advocates a semiotic approach to exploring Pericles's “muteness” as a negative speech act that “transforms truth into miracle.”

Freeh, John. “Pericles and ‘Marina’: T. S. Eliot's Search for the Transcendent in Late Shakespeare.” In Shakespeare's Last Plays: Essays in Literature and Politics, edited by Stephen W. Smith and Travis Curtright, pp....

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