Shakespeare Survey

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

Stanley Wells (Edited by)

9780521523745, 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. Shakespeare and the living dramatist Wole Soyinka
2. Blood and wine: tragic ritual from Aeschylus to Soyinka Philip Brockbank
3. Hamlet andante/Hamlet allegro: Tom Stoppard's two versions Jill L. Levenson
4. Auden, Shakespeare, and the defence of poetry Susan Snyder
5. Graves on lovers, and Shakespeare at a lovers' funeral Peter Bilton
6. Tragic balance in Hamlet Philip Edwards
7. Hamlet across space and time Lu Gu-Sun
8. Shakespeare's scripts and the modern director Alan C. Dessen
9. 'He Shall Live a Man Forbid': Ingmar Bergman's Macbeth Ann Fridén
10. Komisarjevsky at Stratford-upon-Avon Ralph Berry
11. Troilus and Cressida and the definition of beauty Juliet Dusinberre
12. The pastoral reckoning in Cymbeline Michael Taylor
13. New created creatures: Ralph Crane and the stage directions in The Tempest John Jowett
14. Arden of Faversham Alexander Leggatt
15. 'Pickleherring' and English actors in Germany Willem Schrickx
16. Shakespeare performances in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, 1981–2 Nicholas Shrimpton
17. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Brian Gibbons, Lois Potter and George Walton Williams
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]