Shakespeare Survey

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

Stanley Wells (Edited by)

9780521523738, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 November 2002

224 pages
23.6 x 19.1 x 1.3 cm, 0.425 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. Before the Shakespeare revolution: developments in the study of nineteenth-century Shakespearian production Russell Jackson
2. The Meminger Company and English Shakespeare Michael R. Booth
3. Shakespeare at the Burgtheater: from Heinrich Anschütz to Josef Kainz Simon Williams
4. Shakespeare on the Melbourne stage, 1843–61 Dennis Bartholomeusz
5. Shakespeare in Hazlitt's theatre criticism Stanley Wells
6. Characterization of the four young lovers in A Midsummer Night's Dream Joan Stansbury
7. Queenly shadows: on mediation in two comedies Bruce Erlich
8. Language, theme, and character in Twelfth Night Elizabeth M. Yearling
9. The art of the comic duologue in three plays by Shakespeare Robert Wilcher
10. 'Spanish' Othello: the making of Shakespeare's Moor Barbara Everett
11. Ferdinand and Miranda at chess Bryan Loughrey and Neil Taylor
12. Shakespeare's Latin citations: the editorial problem J. W. Binns
13. The theatre at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1605 John Orrell
14. Interpretations of Shakespearian comedy, 1981 Roger Warren
15. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Harriett Hawkins, Gamini Salgado and George Walton Williams
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]