George Wilkins

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George Wilkins (* around 1576; † 1618) was an English playwright who is known for his supposed collaboration with Shakespeare in the play Pericles, Prince of Tire . He was a restaurateur by profession and was involved in criminal activities.

Life

Wilkins was an innkeeper in Cow-Cross, London, an area notorious for "thieves and whores". Most of him is known from contemporary court records. Wilkins has been charged with violent crimes several times. His victims were mostly women, so he kicked a pregnant woman in the stomach. The files show that Wilkins Pub was used as a brothel and he was a pimp. Wilkins has been associated with the Kings Men theater company and its director William Shakespeare in recent years in London. Shakespeare and Wilkins were witnesses in the Bellott v. Mountjoy from 1612. In his affidavit, he described himself as an innkeeper.

Works

He first appeared as the author of the diatribe Three Miseries of Barbary from 1606. He then wrote the play The Travels of the Three English Brothers , a drama about the lives of the Sherley brothers , with William Rowley and John Day in 1607 . In the same year he wrote The Miseries of Enforced Marriage . It is about the life of the squire Walter Calverley , who killed two of his three children and tried to kill his wife.

Pericles

Some researchers believe that Wilkins co-wrote Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tire , and wrote the first third of the play. In any case, Wilkins published the novella The Painful Adventures of Pericles, Prynce of Tire in 1608 , which was written in close association with the play.

literature

  • Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, eds. Shakespeare: The Complete Works (Oxford, 1986)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Roger Warren, Gary Taylor, MacDonald Pairman Jackson , A reconstructed text of Pericles, Prince of Tire , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004, pp.6-7.
  2. ↑ See Charles Nicholl, 'The gent upstairs', Guardian 20-10-2007, and his book The Lodger (2007)
  3. ^ Krueger, Robert (1961). "Manuscript Evidence for dates of two Short Title Catalog books: George Wilkins's 'Three Miseries of Barbary' and the third edition of Elizabeth Grymeston's 'Miscelanea'." The Library s5-XVI (2): 141-142
personal data
SURNAME Wilkins, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English playwright
DATE OF BIRTH around 1576
DATE OF DEATH 1618