Shakespeare Survey: Volume 50, Shakespeare and Language

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production.

Stanley Wells (Edited by)

9780521591355, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 December 1997

312 pages
25.4 x 19.5 x 2.1 cm, 0.735 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 language and the language of Shakespeare's time Stephen Booth
2. 'I'll plague thee for that word': language, performance, and communicable disease Keir Elam
3. The language of the spectator Dennis Kennedy
4. Marlowe's Edward II: penetrating language in Shakespeare's Richard II Meredith Skura
5. Hamlet's ear Philippa Berry
6. Secrecy and gossip in Twelfth Night John Kerrigan
7. Shakespeare rewriting Ovid: Olivia's interview with Viola and the Narcissus myth A. B. Taylor
8. 'Voice Potential': language and symbolic capital in Othello Lynne Magnusson
9. Household words: Macbeth and the failure of spectacle Lisa Hopkins
10. Erring and straying like lost sheep: The Winter's Tale and The Comedy of Errors Brian Gibbons
11. The 'Shakespearian gap' in French Jean-Michel Deprats
12. Reading the early modem text Marion Trousdale
13. Shakespeare and the metamorphosis of the pentameter Kenneth Muir
14. Rereading illustrations of the English stage John Astington
15. Nietzsche's Hamlet Peter Holbrook
16. 'Strange and woonderfull syghts': The Tempest and the discourses of monstrosity Mark Thornton Burnett
17. Shakespeare performances in England, 1996 Robert Smallwood
18. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January-December 1995 Niky Rathbone
19. The year's contributions to Shakespeare studies Janette Dillon, Mark Thornton Burnett and John Jowett
Books received
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]