Synopses & Reviews
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 yearâs 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 Shakespeareâs 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.
Synopsis
The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
Table of Contents
List of plates; 1. Othello: a retrospect, 1900 67 Helen Gardner; 2. The two parts of Othello Ned B. Allen; 3. Othello: a tragedy built on a comic structure Barbara Heliodora C. De Mendonça; 4. Othello and the pattern of Shakespearian tragedy G. R. Hibbard; 5. Othello, Lapanto and the Cyprus Wars Emrys Jones; 6. Iago-Vice or devil Leah Scragg; 7. Thomas Rymer and Othello Nigel Alexander; 8. Delacroixâs Tragedy of Desdemona Christina Merchant; 9. Verdiâs Othello: a Shakespearian masterpiece Winton Dean; 10. William Hervey and Shakespeareâs sonnets I. R. W. Cook; 11. Imagery and irony in Henry V C. H. Hobday; 12. Shakespeare and the actors: notes towards interpretations Gareth Lloyd Evans; 13. The yearâs contributions to Shakespearian study G. R. Hibbard, E. A. J. Honigmann and J. K. Walton; Index to volume 21; General index to volumes 11-20.