George Wilkins (died 1618)[1] was an English dramatist and pamphleteer best known for his possible collaboration with William Shakespeare on the play Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
[2] Most biographical information about him derives from his regular appearance in criminal court records for thievery and acts of violence.
This play is based on the real life story of Walter Calverley, a Yorkshireman whose identity is thinly disguised under the name of "Scarborough."
[5] The editors of the 1986 Oxford Edition of Shakespeare make the assumption that Wilkins was the co-author of Pericles and draw heavily upon The Painful Adventures in their controversial reconstructed text of the play.
In his 2022 book Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Co-Author, Mark Bradbeer suggests that George Wilkins might have been a pseudonym for the poet Emilia Lanier.