Shakespeare Survey

The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.

Allardyce Nicoll (Edited by)

9780521523486, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 November 2002

184 pages
23.6 x 19.1 x 1.3 cm, 0.352 kg

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of the previous year's textual and critical studies and of major British performances. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. The current editor of Survey is Peter Holland. The first eighteen volumes were edited by Allardyce Nicoll, numbers 19-33 by Kenneth Muir and numbers 34-52 by Stanley Wells. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start. For the first time, numbers 1-50 are being reissued in paperback, available separately and as a set.

List of plates
1. The open stage: Elizabethan or existentialist? George R. Kernodle
2. The lantern of taste C. Walter Hodges
3. Was there a typical Elizabethan stage? W. F. Rothwell
4. On reconstructing a practicable Elizabethan public playhouse Richard Southern
5. The discovery-space in Shakespeare's Globe Richard Hosley
6. 'Passing over the stage' Allardyce Nicoll
7. The actor at the foot of Shakespeare's platform J. L. Stylan
8. Elizabethan stage-practice and the transmutation of source material by the dramatists Rudolf Stamm
9. The Maddermarket Theatre and the playing of Shakespeare Nugent Monck
10. Actors and scholars: a view of Shakespeare in the modern theatre Richard David
11. Cleopatra as Isis Michael Lloyd
12. Shakespeare's friends: Hathaways and Burmans at Shottery C. J. Sisson
13. Illustrations of social life II: a butcher and some social pests F. P. Wilson
14. International news
Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1957
15. The whirligig of time, a review of recent productions Roy Walker
16. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Clifford Leech, R. A. Foakes and James G. McManaway
Books received
Index.

Subject Areas: Shakespeare studies & criticism [DSGS]