Shakespeare Survey

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

Stanley Wells (Edited by)

9780521523769, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 November 2002

272 pages
23.6 x 19.1 x 1.3 cm, 0.512 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. Shakespeare's history plays: 1952–1983 Dennis H. Burden
2. Shakespeare and history: divergencies and agreements E. W. Ives
3. Shakespeare's georgic histories James C. Bulman
4. The nature of topicality in Love's Labour's Lost Mary Ellen Lamb
5. The tragic substructure of the Henry IV plays Catherine M. Shaw
6. Hal and the regent Jonathan Bate
7. The rite of violence in Henry IV Derek Cohen
8. The fortunes of Oldcastle Gary Taylor
9. Hand D in Sir Thomas More: an essay in misinterpretation Giorgio Melchiori
10. Livy, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare's Coriolanus Anne Barton
11. Henry VIII and the ideal England Alexander Leggatt
12. The strangeness of a dramatic style: rumour in Henry VIII Pierre Sahel
13. 'Edgar I nothing am': Figurenposition in King Lear Michael E. Mooney
14. 'Very like a whale': scepticism and seeing in The Tempest Robert B. Pierce
15. Shakespeare's medical imagination Maurice Pope
16. Shakespeare in the theatrical criticism of Henry Morley Russell Jackson
17. Shakespeare performances in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, 1983–4 Nicholas Shrimpton
18. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Brian Gibbons, Lois Potter and MacDonald P. Jackson
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]