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## Context
This section appears in a chapter dedicated to the play *Pericles* within a larger collection of Shakespeare's works. It follows the section on "Cotes’ edition of 1635." ([arke:01KG6S5J9K1MYPQ06G4PZ86FA8]) and precedes "Rowe’s text." ([arke:01KG6S5J9KHRK7KK7YDMB43S11]). The section discusses the inclusion of *Pericles* in the Third Folio of Shakespeare's works, published in 1664. The Third Folio included *Pericles* and six other plays not previously printed in folio.
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The section describes the Third Folio reprint of *Pericles*. It notes that the play was included in the second impression of the Third Folio, which added seven plays not previously printed in folio. The text of *Pericles* in the Third Folio is based on the quarto edition of 1635, with some alterations. The section also mentions that for the first time, the play was divided into five acts and included a list of dramatis personae.
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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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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.
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