Nor are they, DMcG, in 'the same league' as one another. R&J's deficiences, so far as it is deficient, are due to its being an early work before Will had got his tragic muse entirely matured as in the great works; but it is replete with beauties and excellences nonetheless. Pericles, otoh, tho having striking parts, is one of those messy attempts at patchwork, probably by collaborators, which never really hangs together, with several narrative absurdities which distract from what virtues it has. Vain to bracket these two plays together quite like that as 'failures', IMO.

~M~