First published in 1609, this transcription is of what is probably the first edition of the work. However, there is some doubt about whether this edition preceded or followed another version issued in the same year by a different printer.The work as printed has no explicit act or scene demarcations. For the purposes of this transcription it has been divided into five acts, each beginning with the entry of 'Gower' to deliver a short prologue.
76Pericles, Prince of Tyre1609William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
THE LATE,
And much admired Play,
Called
Pericles, Prince
of Tyre.
With the true Relation of the whole Historie,
aduentures, and fortunes of the said Prince:
As also,
The no lesse strange,and worthy accidents,
in the Birth and Life, of his Daughter MARIANA.
As it hath been diuers and sundry times acted by
his Maiesties Seruants, at the Globe on
the Banck-side.
By William Shakespeare.
Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are
to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in
Pater-noster row, &c.