Written: c. 1607; Texts: Quarto 1609 (Romance), not in the First Folio but was included in the Third Folio
Source: Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri as translated by John Gower in his Confessio Amantis, c.1390, and The Patterne of Painful Adventures (1607) by Laurence Twine.
Characters: Pericles, Gower, Marina, Simonides, Helicanus, Cleon, Cerimon
Setting: Tyre, Antioch, Tharsus, Pentapolis, Mytilene
Time: Undetermined

This play may have been excluded from the First Folio because it is a collaboration in which Shakespeare is believed to have written only acts III, IV & V. The author of acts I & II is unknown and clearly inferior to Shakespeare. Or it may have been excluded because the publishers could not obtain the rights. Or, finally, it may have be excluded because the 1609 quarto edition was replete with errors. The ending is similar to Comedy of Errors. In both, a married couple is reunited after many years during which one or both think the spouse has died at sea. The Winter’s Tale also ends with the reuniting of a husband to his wife who died years before, but not at sea and her revivication is miraculous, mystical, or at least ambiguous.