DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1635 Shakespeare, William; Wilkins, George Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Reference Information

DEEP #: 551
Greg #: 284f
STC/Wing #: 22339
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragicomedy
 
Book Edition: 5
Play Edition: 6
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: THE LATE, And much admired Play, CALLED Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true Relation of the whole History, adventures, and fortunes of the said Prince.
Author: Written by W. SHAKESPEARE.
Performance:
Imprint: Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, 1635.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: Cotes, 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: Greg calls this edition a quarto-form octavo [(4°-form) 8°], but it is better described as a large-paper quarto; see G.T. Tanselle, "The Concept of Format," Studies in Bibliography 53 (2000): 67-115. Annals and Suzanne Gossett's Arden3 edition date the first production to 1608 [1606-1608]; William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion dates it to 1607.