Shakespeare Survey

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

Allardyce Nicoll (Edited by)

9780521523493, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 November 2002

200 pages
23.6 x 19.1 x 1.3 cm, 0.379 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 catharsis of King Lear J. Stampfer
2. Lear's last speech J. K. Walton
Albany Leo Kirschbaum
3. Madness in King Lear Kenneth Muir
4. The influence of Gorboduc on King Lear Barbara Heliodora Carneiro De Mendonça
5. Some aspects of the style of King Lear Winifred M. T. Nowottny
6. Keats and King Lear D. G. James
7. King Lear on the stage: a producer's reflections Arnold Szyfman
8. Costume in King Lear W. Moelwyn Merchant
9. The marriage-contracts in Measure for Measure Ernest Schanzer
10. Tom Skelton – a seventeenth-century Jester E. W. Ives
11. Illustrations of social life III: street cries F. P. Wilson
12. An Elizabethan stage drawing? R. A. Foakes and R. T. Rickert
13. Was there a music-room in Shakespeare's Globe? Richard Hosley
14. International notes
15. Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1958
16. Three adaptations John Russell Brown
17. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Bernard Harris, R. A. Foakes and James G. McManaway
Books received
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]