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- PERICLES 33
divided into five Acts, and the first scene is headed *Actus Primus: Scena Prima*. There is no further indication of scenes. For the first time there also appears a list of dramatis personae. This is placed under the heading ‘The Actors Names’ at the end of the piece. It is imperfect and there are curious errors. The daughter of Antiochus, who is unnamed in the play, is called ‘Hesperides’ from the figurative language of i. 1. 27. ‘Philoten, daughter to Cleon’, who is merely mentioned in the text and does not take any part in the action, is included in the list. ‘Dionyza’ is miscalled ‘Dionysia’, and Mytilene is misspelt Metaline.
The play of *Pericles* is as completely separated from what follows it in the Third Folio, as from what precedes it. *The London Prodigall*, which succeeds *Pericles*, opens a new set of signatures and a new pagination, which are both continuous to the end of the volume. It was clearly the original intention of the publisher Chetwinde to add to the Folio collection of Shakespeare’s plays *Pericles* alone. The extension of the appendix so as to admit the six other plays is shown by the signatures and new pagination to have been an afterthought.
The Fourth Folio of 1685 is a reprint of the second impression of the Third Folio of 1664. *Pericles* figures in the same place in the volume, but it does not begin a new pagination; the piece is paged continuously with the tragedies. The signatures throughout the volume are also continuous and are quite regular. The list of dramatis personae—‘The Actors Names’—is found at the head of the play, instead of at the end as in the Third Folio.
Nicholas Rowe, in his first critical edition of Shakespeare’s Rowe’s text.
The concluding section of the volume consists of fifty leaves, irregularly signed, thus:—*, **, ***, ***, in fours; ¶A, ¶B, in sixes; ¶C—¶F, in fours; ¶G, six leaves.
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