Suzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history, with an introduction showing how the play's performance history has paralled the criticism. It then gives an interpretation of this two-generation romance, with its successive male and female central characters, based on a reading 'through the family', and influenced by the feminist and new historicist criticism of the last two decades.The edition integrates cumulative research on Shakespeare's collaborative authorship and the transmission of the text without rewriting the play or ignoring years of emendations.
| ISBN: | 9781903436844 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 2004 |
| Author: | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher: | The Arden Shakespeare an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 480 pages |
| Series: | The Arden Shakespeare |
| Genres: |
Educational: First / native language: Literature studies |
Suzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history, with an introduction showing how the play's performance history has paralled the criticism. It then gives an interpretation of this two-generation romance, with its successive male and female central characters, based on a reading 'through the family', and influenced by the feminist and new historicist criticism of the last two decades.The edition integrates cumulative research on Shakespeare's collaborative authorship and the transmission of the text without rewriting the play or ignoring years of emendations.
"Pericles" features in the following genres: Educational: First / native language: Literature studies
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"Pericles" was written by William Shakespeare and published by The Arden Shakespeare an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
"Pericles" has 480 pages
Yes it is part of The Arden Shakespeare series