Shakespeare Survey

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

Kenneth Muir (Edited by)

9780521523707, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 November 2002

276 pages
23.6 x 19.1 x 1.3 cm, 0.519 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. Shakespeare's middle comedies: a generation of criticism
M. M. Mahood
2. 'Perfect types of womanhood': Rosalind, Beatrice and Viola in Victorian criticism and performance Russell Jackson
3. The stage representation of the 'Kill Claudio' sequence in Much Ado About Nothing J. F. Cox
4. As You Like It adapted: Charles Johnson's Love in a Forest Edith Holding
5. Social relations and the social order in Much Ado About Nothing Elliot Krieger
6. Sexual disguise in As You Like It and Twelfth Night Nancy K. Hayles
7. Twelfth Night and the myth of Echo and Narcissus D. J. Palmer
8. 'Smiling at grief': some techniques of comedy in Twelfth Night and Così fan tutte Roger Warren
9. 'My lady's a Catayan, we are politicians, Maluolios a peg-a-ramsie' (Twelfth Night II, iii, 77–8) Gustav Ungerer
10. The importance of being marcade J. M. Nosworthy
11. A Hebrew source for The Merchant of Venice S. J. Schönfeld
12. The marriage contracts in Measure for Measure: a reconsideration Karl P. Wenterdorf
13. Richard III: antecedents of Clarence's dream Harold F. Brooks
14. Deep plots and indiscretions in 'The murder of Gonzago' M. R. Woodhead
15. 'What isn't to leave betimes?' Proverbs and logic in Hamlet Joan Larsen Klein
16. The Tempest: language and society Stanton B. Garner, Jr
17. Pictorial evidence for a possible replica of the London Fortune Theatre in Gdansk Jerzy Limon
18. A year of comedies: Stratford 1978 Roger Warren
19. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study R. F. Hill, E. D. Pendry and George Walton Williams
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]