Shakespeare Survey: Volume 62, Close Encounters with Shakespeare's Text

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 62 is 'Close Encounters with Shakespeare's Text'.

Peter Holland (Edited by)

9780521111034, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 October 2009

454 pages
25.2 x 19.5 x 2.7 cm, 1.04 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 that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The theme for volume 62 is 'Close Encounters with Shakespeare's Text'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at http://www.cambridge.org/online/shakespearesurvey. This fully-searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic, and save and bookmark their results.

1. Shakespeare, text and paratext Sonia Massai
2. The popularity of Shakespeare in print Lukas Erne
3. The continuing importance of new bibliographical method Paul Werstine
4. 'Honour the real thing': Shakespeare, trauma and Titus Andronicus in South Africa Catherine Silverstone
5. 'O, these encounterers': on Shakespeare's meetings and partings David Hillman
6. A play of modals: grammar and potential action in early Shakespeare Lynne Magnusson
7. Merry, Marry, Mary: Shakespearean word-play and Twelfth Night Thomas Rist
8. A subtle point: sleeves, tents, and 'Ariachne's broken woof' (again) Hester Lees-Jeffries
9. The look of Othello Michael Neill
10. Red button Shakespeare Rob Conkie
11. 'Mark you/His absolute shall?': multitudinous tongues and contested words in Coriolanus Alysia Kolentsis
12. Chagall's Tempest: an autobiographical reading Hanna Scolnicov
13. Reading illustrated editions: methodology and the limits of interpretation Stuart Sillars
14. Close encounters with Anne Brontë's Shakespeare Paul Edmondson
15. Shakespeare and the magic lantern Judith Buchanan
16. Shakespeare and the coconuts: close encounters in post-apartheid South Africa Natasha Distiller
17. The Schrödinger effect: reading and misreading performance Andrew James Hartley
18. Behind the scenes Robert Shaughnessy
19. Inner monologues: realist acting and/as Shakespearean performance text Roberta Barker
20. More Japanized, casual and transgender Shakespeares Shoichiro Kawai
21. Translation futures: are Shakespeareans in search of the foreign text? Ton Hoenselaars
22. After translation Yong Li Lan
23. 'The single and peculiar life': Hamlet's heart and the early modern subject Graham Holderness
24. Mapping King Lear Robert B. Pierce
25. 'Last on the stage': the place of Shakespeare in Charles Darwin's ethology Reiko Oya
26. Sense/memory/sense-memory: reading narratives of Shakespearean rehearsals Cary M. Mazer
Shakespeare performances in England, 2008 Carol Chillington Rutter
Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January-December 2007 James Shaw
The year's contribution to Shakespeare studies: 1. Critical studies reviewed by Julie Sanders
2. Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Emma Smith
3. Editions and textual studies reviewed by (a) Eric Rasmussen (b) Peter Holland.

Subject Areas: Shakespeare studies & criticism [DSGS], Literary studies: general [DSB], Literature: history & criticism [DS], Shakespeare plays [DDS]