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Pericles
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The authoritative edition of Pericles from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is now available as an eBook. Features include:

· The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference
· Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation
· Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
· Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
· Scene-by-scene plot summaries
· A key to famous lines and phrases
· An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language
· Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books
· An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
Guardian.co.uk, July 16, 2011
...hand to hand, on the opposite of a maiden voyage – is beautiful. Time to jump ship: to Pericles for six-year-olds (and over) in Regent's Park. Here, I assumed, my fragile fondness for pirates would hit the rocks. But I hadn't bargained ...
New York Review of Books, April 23, 2009
...is on to the genius of the trick (whose most probable author is the fifth-century sculptor Pheidias, whom Pericles put in charge of the whole building program of the Acropolis; Pheidias was also what we would call the architect of the ...