Shakespeare Survey

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

Stanley Wells (Edited by)

9780521523844, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 November 2002

224 pages
23.6 x 19.1 x 1.3 cm, 0.424 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. The reception of Hamlet R. A. Foakes
2. 'Hamlet, revenge!': the uses and abuses of historical criticism Paul N. Siegel
3. Revision by excision: rewriting Gertrude Ellen J. O'Brien
4. Gazing at Hamlet, or the Danish cabaret Lawrence Danson
5. 'He's going to his mother's closet': Hamlet and Gertrude on screen Murray Biggs
6. Shakespeare rewound Graham Holderness
7. Freud's Hamlet Kenneth Muir
8. 'Pray you, undo this button': implications of 'Un-' in King Lear Leslie Thomson
9. Marx and Shakespeare R. S. White
10. Peter Street, 1553–1609: builder of playhouses Mary Edmond
11. Shakespeare performances in England, 1990–1 Peter Holland
12. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January–December 1990 Niky Rathbone
13. The year's contributions to Shakespeare studies David Lindley, Martin Wiggins and H. R. Woudhuysen
Books received
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]