262 SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. [Oct. 7, 



edition of the play in that year.] In this little book, of which only 

 twenty-five copies were printed and fifteen destroyed by Halliwell in 

 his usual provoking fashion, we read: ''In the Kinges greate 

 chamber they went to see the play of Pirracles, Prince of Tyre, 

 which lasted till two o'clock. After two actes the playeres ceased till 

 the French all refreshed them with sweetmeates brought on chynay 

 voiders, and wyne and ale in bottelles. After the players begann 

 anewe" (p. ii). 



In recent times Pericles has rarely been acted. Alfred Meiss- 

 ner for a long time proclaimed that Pericles was the equal of 

 Winter'' s Tale in its histrionic possibilities. His wish to see the play 

 embodied in the German repertoire was finally realized. Possart 

 produced it in Munich, October 20, 1882, and the magnificence 

 of the acting and the stage appointments Meissner described with 

 lively enthusiasm in the eighteenth volume of the Shakespeare 

 Jahrbuch} The resuscitation scene and the storm scene seem to 

 have impressed the audience greatly, and from the third act the 

 spectators were irresistibly carried away. 



Pericles was several times published in quarto before it appeared 

 in a folio edition. The first and second quartos appeared in 1609, 

 the third in 161 1, the fourth in 16 19, the fifth in 1630 and the 

 sixth in 1635. The play is not in the first or second folios, but is 

 printed in the third folio (1664). That it was popularly ascribed 

 to Shakespeare, however, there is sufficient evidence ; as in Shep- 

 pard's The times displayed in six sestyads (1646) : 



" With Sophocles we may 

 Compare great Shakespear Aristophanes 



Never like him, his Fancy could display 

 Witness the Prince of Tyre, his Pericles. 



There is some doubt as to the priority of the two quartos of 1609. 

 Both are in the British Museum, and both have been reproduced in 

 facsimile by the Griggs process in the series of ''Shakespeare 

 Q^zxlo facsimiles. "" Introductions to the two quartos were written 

 by P. Z. Round of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, to whom I 

 am indebted for many courtesies in my study of the quartos. The 

 British Museum Catalogue names the C. 34, K. T^d copy the first 

 quarto, and C. 12, H. 5 the second; but the Cambridge editors 



^The play was performed to the accompaniment of music. Herman Merivale 

 has also written some charming songs for Pericles. 



