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The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
1611

STC 22336, title page

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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true relation of the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the sayd prince: as also, the no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the birth and life, of his daughter Mariana. As it hath beene diuers and sundry times acted by his Maiestyes seruants, at the Globe on the Banck-side. By VVilliam Shakespeare.
Date: Printed at London : by S. S[tafford], 1611.
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA
Call number and opening: STC 22336, title page
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William Shakespeare
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The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true relation of the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the sayd prince: as also, the no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the birth and life, of his daughter Mariana
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Printed at London : by S. S[tafford], 1611.
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Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, USA
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STC 22336, title page

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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true relation of the whole history, aduentures, and fortunes of the sayd prince: as also, the no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the birth and life, of his daughter Mariana. As it hath beene diuers and sundry times acted by his Maiestyes seruants, at the Globe on the Banck-side. By VVilliam Shakespeare.
Date: Printed at London : by S. S[tafford], 1611.
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA
Call number and opening: STC 22336, title page
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Jonathan Holmes, "Pericles, third edition," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/246.

Folger Shakespeare Library, STC 22336. See Shakespeare Documentedhttps://doi.org/10.37078/246.

The third edition of Pericles was printed in 1611. It retains certain textual errors introduced in the second edition, indicating that the third edition was based on the previous one. Since the book was printed in two sections (A-C, D-I), Simon Stafford, included on the title page as the printer “S. S.” probably shared the printing with another unidentified printer. Like the first two editions, this one also misidentifies Pericles’s daughter as “Mariana” on the title page.

First published in 1609Pericles was among the most popular plays in print during the early seventeenth century, with a total of six editions published by 1635. This edition title’s page also includes that the play was written “By William Shakespeare.” Many scholars now believe that Shakespeare co-authored Pericles, most likely with George Wilkins, who wrote a prose romance version of Pericles published in 1608. Like Two Noble KinsmenPericles is notably absent from the First Folio.

The copy shown above is one of four copies of this edition listed in the English Short Title Catalogue; this one is part of the Folger Shakespeare Library collection. Maurice Jonas, a previous owner, pasted two printed bibliographical excerpts about this copy onto the front endleaf. A.S.W. Rosenbach purchased the copy from Marsden J. Perry on July 22, 1919, and Henry Clay Folger purchased it from Rosenbach later that same year.

To learn more about this play, please see the page about Pericles on the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Shakespeare's Works and the British Library’s Shakespeare in Quarto, which also includes another copy of this edition.

 

Written by Jonathan Holmes

Sources 

W.W. Greg, Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. Four Volumes. (London: Oxford UP, 1939-57).

Suzanne Gossett, "Introduction." Pericles. Arden Third Series. (London: Methuen Drama, 2003).

Last updated January 25, 2020