Which Shakespeare play is believed to have been written in collaboration with George Wilkins?

*Pericles, Prince of Tyre* is the Shakespeare play believed to have been written in collaboration with George Wilkins.

The play is usually dated to around 1607–1608 and tells of Pericles, a prince driven across the Mediterranean by danger, shipwreck, separation, and eventual reunion with his daughter Marina. Its episodic structure and heavily damaged early text have made questions of authorship especially persistent.

Many scholars associate Wilkins with much of the first two acts, while Shakespeare is often credited with the later portion, particularly the material involving Marina and the final reunions. Wilkins published *The Painful Adventures of Pericles, Prince of Tyre* in 1608, a prose narrative closely related to the play. Shakespeare and Wilkins were also both witnesses in the Bellott v. Mountjoy lawsuit in 1612.

The attribution is not absolutely settled. Some editors, including the Cambridge editors, have argued that Shakespeare may have written the whole play, while Oxford and Arden traditions generally accept Wilkins as a collaborator. That scholarly dispute explains the careful wording “believed to have been written in collaboration,” rather than a categorical claim of joint authorship.