Shakespeare Survey

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

Stanley Wells (Edited by)

9780521523752, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 November 2002

240 pages
23.6 x 19.1 x 1.3 cm, 0.453 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 illustrations
1. Criticism of the comedies up to The Merchant of Venice: 1953–82 R. S. White
2. Plotting the early comedies: The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona K. Tetzeli Von Rosador
3. The good marriage of Katherine and Petruchio David Daniell
4. Shrewd and kindly farce Peter Saccio
5. Illustrations to A Midsummer Night's Dream before 1920 Kenneth Garlick
6. The nature of Portia's victory: turning to men in The Merchant of Venice Keith Geary
7. Nature's originals: value in Shakespearian pastoral William W. E. Slights
8. 'Contrarieties agree': an aspect of dramatic technique in Henry VI Roger Warren
9. Falstaff's broken voice John W. Sider
10. 'He who the sword of heaven will bear': the Duke versus Angelo in Measure for Measure N. W. Bawcutt
11. War and sex in All's Well That Ends Well R. B. Parker
12. Changing places in Othello Michael Neill
13. Prospero's lime tree and the pursuit of Vanitas Rosemary Wright
14. Shakespearian character study to 1800 John Bligh
15. How German is Shakespeare in Germany? Recent trends in criticism and performance in West Germany Werner Habicht
16. Shakespeare performances in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, 1982–3 Nicholas Shrimpton
17. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Brian Gibbons, Lois Potter and MacDonald P. Jackson
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]