Pericles, 9780230361904
Paperback
Loss, reunion, and the enduring power of Shakespeare’s theatre.

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  • Paperback

    200 pages

  • Release Date

    21 February 2012

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Summary

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare’s touching fable of loss and reunion. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Pericles in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with three leading directors and an actor – Adrian Noble, Dominic Cooke, Adrian Jackson and Laura Rees – providing an illum…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780230361904
ISBN-10:0230361900
Author:Jonathan Bate, Prof. Eric Rasmussen, Eric Rasmussen
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:The RSC Shakespeare
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:200
Release Date:21 February 2012
Weight:220g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 14mm
Series:The RSC Shakespeare
About The Author

Jonathan Bate

Jonathan Bate

Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Professor Bate has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale, and UCLA, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

A prominent critic, award-winning biographer, and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador). In June 2006, he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen for services to Higher Education.

Eric Rasmussen

Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and has edited volumes in both the Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World’s Classics series. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project. For over nine years, he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.

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