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 final phase of Shakespeare's career which seeks to illuminate their “mysterious, almost hermetic, quality.”

Marks, Peter. “High Jinks on the High Seas, and a Little Shakespeare, Too.” New York Times (10 November 1998): E5.

Reviews a production of Pericles at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York, concluding that the play suffered from poor performances and an overemphasis on visual effects.

Relihan, Constance C. “Liminal Geography: Pericles and the Politics of Place.” Philological Quarterly 71, no. 3 (summer 1992): 281-99.

Surveys the geographical locations of Pericles and maintains that Shakespeare's use of such places “undermines interpretations of the play that see it affirming both James I's reign and time's ability to heal and restore.”

Spradley, Dana Lloyd. “Pericles and the Jacobean Family Romance of Union.” Assays: Critical Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Texts 7 (1992): 87-118.

Views Pericles as a parody of King James I's attempts to unite England and Scotland.