Shakespeare Survey

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

Allardyce Nicoll (Edited by)

9780521523530, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 November 2002

316 pages
23.6 x 19.1 x 1.3 cm, 0.59 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
Editorial preface
Part I. The Daily Life: 1. London and the court T. F. Reddaway
2. Provincial life W. G. Hoskins
3. Sailors and the sea D. B. Quinn
4. Elizabethans and foreigners G. K. Hunter
5. Education and apprenticeship M. H. Curtis
6. The law and the lawyers E. W. Ives
7. London's prisons Clifford Dobb
Part II. Philosophy and Fancy: 8. The commonwealth Philip Styles
9. Dissent and satire Bernard Harris
10. Scientific thought Marie Boas Hall
11. Medicine and public health F. N. L. Poynter
12. The folds of folklore Katharine M. Briggs
13. Symbols and significances G. Pellegrini
Part III. Art and Entertainment: 14. Actors and theatres William A. Armstrong
15. The Printing of Books Arthur Brown
16. Music and ballads F. W. Stepnfeld
17. The foundations of Elizabethan language Mumel St Clare Byrne
Notes
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]