Shakespeare Survey: Volume 56, Shakespeare and Comedy
An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production.

Peter Holland (Edited by)

9780521049993, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 January 2008

384 pages, 25 b/w illus.
23.5 x 19 x 2 cm, 0.661 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 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. Looking like a child - or - Titus: the comedy Carol Chillington Rutter
2. Comedy and Epyllion in post-Reformation England Dympna Callaghan
3. (Peter) Quince: love potions, carpenter's coigns and Athenian weddings Patricia Parker
4. 'When everything seems double': Peter Quince, the other playwright in A Midsummer Night's Dream A. B. Taylor
5. Cultural materialism and intertextuality: the limits of queer reading in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen Alan Sinfield
6. As you liken it: simile in the wilderness Robert N. Watson
7. Infinite jest: the comedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Ann Thompson
8. Othello and the end of comedy Stephen Orgel
9. Shakespeare as a joke: the English comic tradition, A Midsummer Night's Dream and amateur performance Michael Dobson
10. Falstaff's belly, Bertie's kilt, Rosalind's legs: Shakespeare and the Victorian prince Adrian Poole
11. The sixth act: Shakespeare after Joyce Maud Ellmann
12. The return of Prospero's wife: mother figures in The Tempest's afterlife Sarah Annes Brown
13. Directing Shakespeare's comedies: in conversation with Peter Holland Declan Donnellan
14. 'To show our simple skill': scripts and performances in Shakespearian comedy Michael Cordner
15. John Shakespeare's 'spiritual testament': a reappraisal Robert Bearman
16. Shakespeare as a force for good Peter Holbrook
17. Timon of Athens and Jacobean politics Andrew Hadfield
18. Man, woman and beast in Timon's Athens Andreas Höfele
19. Rough magic: northern broadsides at work at play Carol Chillington Rutter
20. Shakespeare performances in England, 2002 Michael Dobson
21. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January–December 2001 James Shaw
The Year's Contributions to Shakespeare Studies: 22. Critical studies reviewed by Ruth Morse
23. Shakespeare's life, times and stage reviewed by Leslie Thomson
24. Editions and textual studies reviewed by Eric Rasmussen
Books received
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]