DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1619 Shakespeare, William; Wilkins, George Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Reference Information

DEEP #: 5077.03
Greg #: 284d
STC/Wing #: n/a
Record Type: Play in Collection
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragicomedy
 
Book Edition: n/a
Play Edition: 4
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 34
Date of First Publication: 1609
Date of First Production: 1608 [1606-1608]
Company of First Production: King's Men
Company Attribution: n/a
 
Total Editions: 5 quartos, 1 quarto in collection
 

Title-Page Features

Title: [χ1r] THE LATE, And much admired Play, CALLED, Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true Relation of the whole History, aduentures, and fortunes of the saide Prince.
Author: Written by W. SHAKESPEARE.
Performance:
Imprint: Printed for T. P. 1619.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Publisher: Pavier, Thomas
Entries in Stationers' Register: May 20, 1608: Entered to Edward Blount: "a booke called. The booke of Pericles Prynce of Tyre".
Aug 4, 1626: Transferred from the widow of Thomas Pavier to Edward Brewster and Robert Bird: "Mr Paviers right in Shakesperes plaies or any of them".
Nov 8, 1630: Transferred from Robert Bird to Richard Cotes: "Pericles".
 
Additional Notes: Annals and Suzanne Gossett's Arden3 edition date the first production to 1608 [1606-1608]; William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion dates it to 1607.