Shakespeare Survey

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

Stanley Wells (Edited by)

9780521523868, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 November 2002

300 pages
23.5 x 1.6 x 19.1 cm, 0.52 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 played small: three speculations about the body Dennis Kennedy
2. The architecture of the Fortune playhouse John Orrell
3. The bare Island Andrew Gurr
4. 'How chances it they travel?': provincial touring, playing places, and the King's Men Alan Somerset
5. Writing for the metropolis: illegitimate performances of Shakespeare in early nineteenth-century London Jane Moody
6. The perishable body of the unpoetic: A. C. Bradley performs Othello Mark Gauntlett
7. Playing places for Shakespeare: the Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich Franklin J. Hildy
8. 'A fairly average sort of place': Shakespeare in Northampton, 1927–1987 Richard Foulkes
9. The living monument: self and stage in the criticism and scholarship of M. C. Bradbrook J. R. Mulryne
10. Stratford stages: interviews with Michael Reardon and Tim Furby, and Sam Mendes Peter Holland
11. Dis-covering the female body: erotic exploration in Elizabethan poetry Werner Von Koppenfels
12. Theseus' shadows in A Midsummer Night's Dream Peter Holland
13. 'Time for such a word': verbal echoing in Macbeth George Walton Williams
14. Shakespeare's knowledge of Italian Naseeb Shaheen
15. Tamburlaine and Edward Alleyn's Ring S. P. Cerasano
16. Shakespeare performances in England, 1992–1993 Peter Holland
17. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January–December 1992 Niky Rathbone
18. The year's contribution to Shakespeare studies David Lindley, Martin Wiggins and H. R. Woudhuysen
Books received
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]