260 ' SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. [Oct. 7, 



If, when in pain for the event, surprise 

 And sympathetic joy shou'd fill your eyes ; 

 Do not repine that so you crown an art, 

 Which gives such sweet emotions to the heart : 

 "Whose pleasures, so exalted in their kind. 

 Do, as they charm the sense, improve the mind." 



In Lillo's play the story is told in three acts. Naturally several 

 of the dra7natis persQ7i(B of the first act disappear ; King Antiochus 

 and his daughter, King Simonides, Lychorida, the nurse of Marina, 

 and Cerimon and Philemon are not to be found. Escanes alone 

 attends upon Pericles. In place of Cleon and Dionysa, Philoten 

 appears as Queen of Tharsus ; Shakespeare's Valdes is refashioned 

 as chief of the pirates ; Lysimachus appears as governor of Ephe- 

 sus, and the scene is transferred from Mitylene to Ephesus. Lillo 

 begins with Shakespeare's fourth act, in which Marina first appears. 



The reader is referred for an analysis of the plot of Marina to- 

 Shakespeare' s ^^ Pericles " tind George Lillo^s ^^ Marina " von Dr. 

 Paul von Hofmann-Wellenhof, Wien, 1885, pp. 13-21. 



Shakespeare's ''Pericles Prince of Tyre." 



The first mention of Shakespeare's Pericles is in the Stationers* 

 Register^ under date of May 20, 1608 : 



'' Edward Blount entred for his copie under thandes of Sir George 

 Buck Knight and Master Warden Seton a booke called The booke 

 of Pericles prince\of Tyre' ^ (Arber's Transcript, iii, 378). It appears 

 to have been produced in 1607 or 1608. In Pimlyco or Ru7ine 

 Redcap, the extant copies dating from 1609, but originally pro- 

 duced, according to Warton, in 1596, occurs the following refer- 

 ence to Pericles : 



<< Amazde I stood, to see a crowd 

 Of Civill Throats stretched out so loud ; 

 (As at a new-play^ all the Roomes 

 Did swarme with Gentiles mix'd with Groomes, 

 So that I truly thought all these 

 Came to see Shore or Per ides. '''' 



F. G. Fleay is inclined to think that the play was performed 

 earlier than 1607. He fancies a resemblance between Act iii, 

 Scene ii, oi Pericles (the restoration to life of Thaisa) and a scene 

 of sham restoration in The Puritan, a play acted in 1606. It is 

 quite probable, however, that the likeness is accidental. The pop- 



