Barker, Gerard A. "Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Pericles" English Studies 44, no. 6 (1963): 401-14.
Barker argues that Shakespeare deviates from his source in a way that emphasizes religious faith and the great patience of Pericles.
Brockbank, J. P. "Pericles and the Dream of Immortality." Shakespeare Survey 24 (1971): 105-16.
Brockbank examines the several deaths and miraculous reappearances of the presumed dead in the play and suggests that Pericles dramatizes rebirth.
Cutts, John P. "Pericles's 'Downright Violence'." Shakespeare Studies 4 (1968): 275-93.
Cutts presents Pericles as a seeker of excitement who brings on his own misfortunes.
Felperin, Howard. "Shakespeare's Miracle Play." Shakespeare Quarterly 18, no. 4 (1967): 363-74.
Felperin examines each scene of Pericles and, in its allegory and use of a chorus, likens it to a medieval miracle play.
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