Pericles

Over the past two decades there has been a resurgence of theatrical interest in Shakespeare's Pericles, which has been rescued from comparative neglect and is now frequently performed. This development is charted in the introduction to this edition, which differs radically from any other currently available. Doreen DelVecchio and Antony Hammond reject the critical orthodoxies of a corrupt text and divided authorship. Instead they show the play to be a unified aesthetic experience. The result is a more enthusiatic view of Pericles than that of other editions.

• Pericles has enjoyed a renaissance of interest recently, in both performance and criticism
• Hammond a very experienced editor (did the Arden Richard III)
• Editors take a radical view of the play's textual history and authorship, maintaining that it is the work of Shakespeare alone
• Arden Pericles not due out until 1999