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The line of succession does not cease with Shakespeare. We 

 have still to name Pericles, Prince of Tyre, a novel by George 

 Wilkins, printed in 1608, and having curious relations to the 

 Shakespearean play. It was reprinted by Tycho Mommsen, under 

 the title, ''Pericles, Prince of Tyre. A Novel by George Wilkins, 

 printed in 1608, and founded upon Shakespeare's Play. Edited by 

 Professor Tycho Mommsen. With a Preface by J. Payne Collier, 

 Esq. Oldenburg, 1857." Shakespeare's plays were often founded 

 upon novels, notably upon those of Cinthio and Bandello ; this is the 

 first instance of a novel being founded upon a Shakespearian play. 

 Collier told Mommsen that there was only one copy of Wilkins* 

 novel in England. He cited the title-page as follows : ''The Pain- 

 ful Adventures of Pericles, Prijice of Tyre. Being the true history 

 of the play of Pericles as it was lately presented by the worthy and 

 ancient poet, John Gower, at London. Printed by T. P. [avier?] 

 for Nat. Butter,^ 1608." It is in quarto and consists of forty leaves. 

 In the centre of the title-page is a wood-cut of John Gower, at- 

 tired in a theatre cloak, with a staff in one hand and a bunch of 

 bays in the other; before him, upon a desk, lies a copy of Co?tfessio 

 Amaniis. In " The Argument of the whole Historic," with which 

 the book begins, the reader is entreated ''to receive this Historie 

 in the same maner as it was under the habite of ancient Gower, the 

 famous English Poet, by the King's Maiesties Players excellently 

 presented." 



Another copy was found in Zurich, which had belonged to the 

 Swiss poet, Martin Usteri (i 741-1827), a minor writer who had 

 composed some lines in the style of Herrick : 



" Freut euch des Lebens 

 Weil noch das Lampclien glflht, 

 Pfliicket die Rosen 

 Eh sie verbliiht." 



It was this copy that Prof. Mommsen reprinted. The contents 

 of the novel we will consider when we discuss the stability of the 

 saga. 



Other late reappearances of the story are in Davenport, who 

 uses the brothel scene, and in the Dutch play, Alexander and 

 Lodwick, Amsterdam, 1618, supposed to be an adaptation of a 



1 It was for Nathaniel Butter that the first and second quartos of King Lear 

 (1608) were printed. 



