Shakespeare Survey: Volume 55, King Lear and its Afterlife
An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production.

Peter Holland (Edited by)

9780521049986, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 January 2008

424 pages, 19 b/w illus.
23.5 x 19 x 1.8 cm, 0.639 kg

"a very attractive and useful volume in the series begun over half a century ago." - Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England Jay L. Halio

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 characterized 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. King Lear: A retrospect, 1980–2000 Kiernan Ryan
2. How Shakespeare knew King Leir Richard Knowles
3. Contracts of love and affection: Lear, old age, and kingship William O. Scott
4. Headgear as a paralinguistic signifier in King Lear Andrew Gurr
5. What becomes of the broken-hearted: King Lear and the dissociation of sensibility Drew Milne
6. Lear's afterlife John J. Joughin
7. Songs of madness: the lyric afterlife of Shakespeare's poor Tom William C. Carroll
8. Secularizing King Lear: Shakespeare, Tate, and the sacred Peter Womack
9. 'Look on her, look': the apotheosis of Cordelia Janet Bottoms
10. Jacob Gordin's Mirele Efros: King Lear as Jewish mother Iska Alter
11. 'How fine a play was Mrs Lear': the case for Gordon Bottomley's King Lear's Wife Richard Foulkes
12. Some Lears Richard Proudfoot
13. King Lear and Endgame R. A. Foakes
14. Shakespeare in pain: Edward Bond's Lear and the ghosts of history Thomas Cartelli
15. 'Think about Shakespeare': King Lear on pacific cliffs Mark Houlahan
16. Actors, editors, and the annotation of Shakespeare playscripts Michael Cordner
17. Titus Andronicus: the Classical presence Niall Rudd
18. Julius Caesar, Machiavelli, and the uses of history Robin Headlam Wells
19. Scepticism and theatre in Macbeth Kent Cartwright
20. Revels end, and the gentle body starts Simon Shepherd
21. 'Taking just care of the impression': editorial intervention in Shakespeare's Fourth Folio, 1685 Sonia Massai
22. 'A world elsewhere': Shakespeare in South Africa Jonathan Holmes
23. Shakespeare performances in England, 2001 Michael Dobson
24. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January–December 2000 Niky Rathbone
The Year's Contribution to Shakespeare Studies: 25. Critical studies reviewed by Edward Pechter
26. Shakespeare's life, times, and stage reviewed by Leslie Thomson
27. Editions and textual studies (1) reviewed by Eric Rasmussen
28. Editions and textual studies (2) reviewed by John Jowett
Books received
Index.

Subject Areas: Shakespeare studies & criticism [DSGS], Literary studies: general [DSB]