Pericles

The Oxford Shakespeare
General Editor: Stanley Wells
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers
- The only single-volume, modern-spelling edition both to offer a reconstruction of the original play and to reproduce the corrupt Quarto text of 1609 exactly as first printed
- On-page commentary and notes explains meaning, staging, language, and allusions
- Detailed introduction explains the complex textual situation and Shakespeare`s probable collaboration with George Wilkins
- Illustrated with production photographs and related art
- Full index to introduction and commentary
- Durable sewn binding for lasting use
`not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship`