Title page of the 1611 quarto of William Shakespeare's play Pericles, Prince of Tyre.

This title page suggests the success of Pericles with Jacobean audiences, despite Ben Jonson's attack on it as a "mouldy play." Modern opinion has become more favorable: for example, T. S. Eliot found much to admire, saying of the moment of Pericles' reunion with his daughter: "To my mind the finest of all the 'recognition scenes' is Act V,i of that very great play Pericles. It is a perfect example of the 'ultra-dramatic', a dramatic action of beings who are more than human... or rather, seen in a light more than that of day." (lecture, 1937, in A Guide to the Selected Poetry of T. S. Eliot, ed. B. C. Southam, Houghton Mifflin, 1996, p. 246) See also Eliot's poem “Marina” (1930). Courtesy of the Yorck Project, under GNU Free Document License.