Additional Resources for Pericles by William Shakespeare

This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Pericles.

Additional Resources for Pericles by William Shakespeare

This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Pericles.
This section contains 456 words
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Barker, Gerard A. "Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Pericles" English Studies 44, no. 6 (1963): 401-14.

Barker argues that Shakespeare deviates from his source in a way that emphasizes religious faith and the great patience of Pericles.

Brockbank, J. P. "Pericles and the Dream of Immortality." Shakespeare Survey 24 (1971): 105-16.

Brockbank examines the several deaths and miraculous reappearances of the presumed dead in the play and suggests that Pericles dramatizes rebirth.

Cutts, John P. "Pericles's 'Downright Violence'." Shakespeare Studies 4 (1968): 275-93.

Cutts presents Pericles as a seeker of excitement who brings on his own misfortunes. 

Felperin, Howard. "Shakespeare's Miracle Play." Shakespeare Quarterly 18, no. 4 (1967): 363-74.

Felperin examines each scene of Pericles and, in its allegory and use of a chorus, likens it to a medieval miracle play.

Flower, Annette C. "Disguise and Identity in Pericles, Prince of Tyre." Shakespeare Quarterly 26, no. 1 (1975): 30-41.

Flower focuses on Pericles, Thaisa, and Marina, discussing the...

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