Shakespeare Survey

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

Stanley Wells (Edited by)

9780521523875, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 November 2002

312 pages
23.5 x 1.7 x 19.1 cm, 0.54 kg

"In an age when university curricula are increasingly inclusive of multicultural studies, this year's addition to the Shakespearean Survey collection is a welcome contribution to the canon of Shakesperean studies....Each of the articles presents a unique argument for the value of cultural appropriation of Shakespeare's plays; this volume thus benefits the spectator, the performer, and the student of multiculturalism." Lori Culwell, Theatre Studies

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 translation as cultural exchange Inga-Stina Ewbank
2. Shakespeare, theatre production, and cultural politics John Russell Brown
3. 'Amphitheaters in the body': playing with hands on the Shakespearian stage Michael Neill
4. 'Shakespur and the Jewbill' James Shapiro
5. Wilhelm S and Shylock Laurence Lerner
6. Pilgrims of Grace: Henry IV historicized Tom McAlindon
7. Holy war in Henry V Steven Marx
8. Hamlet and the anxiety of modern Japan Yasunari Takahashi
9. Hamlet's last words Tom Matheson
10. Venetian culture and the politics of Othello Mark Matheson
11. 'My music for nothing': musical negotiations in The Tempest Pierre Iselin
12. The Tempest and cultural exchange Jean-Marie Maguin
13. Caliban and Ariel write back Jonathan Bate
14. Shakespearian rates of exchange in Czechoslovakia 1945–1989 Zdenek Stríbrny
15. 'Are you a party in this business?' Consolidation and subversion in East German Shakespeare productions Maik Hamburger
16. The martyred knights of Georgian Shakespeariana Nico Kiasashvili
17. Shakespeare performances in England, 1993–1994 Peter Holland
18. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January–December 1993 Niky Rathbone
19. The year's contributions to Shakespeare studies David Lindley, Mark Thornton Burnett and H. R. Woudhuysen
Books received
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Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]