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# PERICLES
the Third Folio in 1664 and to the Fourth Folio of 1685. Some doubt clearly lurked in the minds of Shakespeare’s earliest editors as to the extent of his responsibility for the piece.
Numerous references to the piece in contemporary literature attest the warm welcome which the public extended to its early representations. As early as 1609 some popular doggerel entitled ‘Pimlyco or Runne Red-cap. Tis a mad world at Hogsdon’ (Sig. C 1, line 6) included the lines:—
> Amazde I stood, to see a Crowd
> Of Civill Throats stretchd out so lowd;
> (As at a New-play) all the Roomes
> Did swarme with Gentiles mix’d with Groomes,
> So that I truly thought all These
> Came to see Shore¹ or Pericles.
In the prologue to Robert Tailor’s comedy, *The Hogge hath lost his Pearle*, 1614, the writer says of his own piece:—
> If it prove so happy as to please,
> Weele say ’tis fortunate like Pericles.
On May 24, 1619, the piece was performed at Court on the occasion of a great entertainment in honour of the French ambassador, the Marquis de Trenouille. The play was still popular in 1630 when Ben Jonson, indignant at the failure of his own piece, *The New Inn*, sneered at ‘some mouldy tale like Pericles’ in his sour ode beginning ‘Come leave the lothed stage’. On June 10, 1631, the piece was revived before a crowded audience at the Globe Theatre ‘upon the cessation of the plague’. At the Restoration
¹ *Shore* may be the play by Thomas Heywood, printed in 1600, entitled *The first and second parts of King Edward the Fourth Sc.* It presents the whole story of Jane Shore.
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