DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1609 Shakespeare, William; Wilkins, George Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Reference Information

DEEP #: 547
Greg #: 284b
STC/Wing #: 22335
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragicomedy
 
Book Edition: 2
Play Edition: 2
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 36
Date of First Publication: 1609
Date of First Production: 1608 [1606-1608]
Company of First Production: King's Men
Company Attribution: King's Men
 
Total Editions: 5 quartos, 1 quarto in collection

Title-Page Features

Title: THE LATE, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true Relation of the whole Historie, aduentures, and fortunes of the said Prince: As also, The no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the Birth and Life, of his Daughter MARIANA.
Author: By William Shakespeare.
Performance: As it hath been diuers and sundry times acted by his Maiesties Seruants, at the Globe on the Banck-side.
Imprint: Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pater-noster row, &c. 1609.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: White, William; Creede, Thomas
Publisher: Gosson, Henry
Imprint Location: C.7 (Newgate Within - Paternoster Row)
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.