Shakespeare Survey

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

Stanley Wells (Edited by)

9780521523882, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 November 2002

364 pages
23.6 x 19.1 x 1.3 cm, 0.674 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 challenges of Romeo and Juliet Stanley Wells
2. The date and the expected venue of Romeo and Juliet Andrew Gurr
3. The 'bad' quarto of Romeo and Juliet David Farley-Hills
4. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: the places of invention Jill L. Levenson
5. 'Death-marked love': desire and presence in Romeo and Juliet Lloyd Davis
6. Carnival and death in Romeo and Juliet: a Bakhtinian reading Ronald Knowles
7. Ideology and the feud in Romeo and Juliet Susan Snyder
8. Bawdy puns and lustful virgins: the legacy of Juliet's desire in comedies of the early 1600s Mary Bly
9. Picturing Romeo and Juliet James Fowler
10. Nineteenth-century Juliet Philip Davis
11. 'O, what learning is!' Pedagogy and the afterlife of Romeo and Juliet Rex Gibson
12. The film versions of Romeo and Juliet Anthony Davies
13. The poetics of paradox: Shakespeare's versus Zeffirelli's culture of violence Joan Ozark Holmer
14. 'Lawful deed': consummation, custom, and law in All's Well That Ends Well Subha Mukherji
15. 'Have you not read of some such thing?' Sex and sexual stories in Othello Edward Pechter
16. French leave, or Lear and the King of France R. A. Foakes
17. The actor as artist: Harold Hobson's Shakespearian theatre criticism Dominic Shellard
18. Shakespeare performances in England, 1994–1995 Peter Holland
19. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January–December 1994 Niky Rathbone
20. The year's contributions to Shakespeare studies David Lindley, Mark Thornton Burnett and John Jowett
Books received
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]