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PERICLES
The Third Folio reprint.
publishing for himself a new edition of Pericles in quarto in 1635. Cotes’ edition closely follows Bird’s text of 1630, and is equally incoherent.
No further edition of Pericles appeared till 1664, when the play was at length included in a collective edition of Shakespeare’s works. It then figured in the opening pages of an appendix containing in addition six other plays which had been falsely ascribed to Shakespeare in his lifetime. The volume was the second (not the first) impression of the Third Folio. The first impression, which has the imprint, ‘London. Printed for Philip Chetwinde 1663,’ reproduces the thirty-six plays which appeared in the First and Second Folios. The second impression has a new title-page running:— ‘M. William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true original copies. The third Impression. And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never before printed in Folio, viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigall. The History of Thomas L. Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A Yorkshire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. Printed for P. C: London, 1664.’
The seven ‘Playes never before printed in Folio’ appear at the end of the volume with new paginations and new signatures. The text of Pericles fills ten leaves, of which the first six belong to a quire signed ‘a’, and the second four to a quire signed ‘b’. The pagination runs 1-20. The introductory heading runs:—‘The much admired Play called Pericles, Prince of Tyre, with the true Relation of the whole History, Adventures, and Fortunes of the said Prince, Written by W. Shakespeare, and published in his life time.’ Chetwinde’s text is that of the quarto of 1635, but there are many conjectural alterations. For the first time the play is
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