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. Old and new comedy Northrop Frye; 2. An approach to Shakespearian comedy V. Y. Kantak; 3. Shakespeare, Molière, and the comedy of ambiguity Michel Grivelet; 4. Comic structure and tonal manipulation in Shakespeare and some modern plays Herbert S. Weil, Jr; 5. Laughing with the audience: 6. The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the popular tradition of comedy Robert Weimann; 7. Shakespearian and Jonsonian comedy Robert Ornstein; 8. Two magian comedies: The Tempest and The Alchemist Harry Levin; 9. âThou that begetâst him that did thee begetâ: transformation in Pericles and The Winterâs Tale C. L. Barber; 10. The words of Mercury Ralph Berry; 11. Why does it end well? Helena, Bertram, and The Sonnets Roger Warren; 12. Some dramatic techniques in The Winterâs Tale William H. Matchett; 13. Clemency, will, and just cause in Julius Caesar John W. Velz; 14. Thomas Bull and other English Instrumentalists in Denmark in the 1580s Gunnar Sjögren; 15. Shakespeare in the early Sydney Theatre Eric Irvin; 16. The reason why: the Royal Shakespeare Season 1968 reviewed Gareth Lloyd Evans; 17. The yearâs contributions to Shakespearian study G. R. Hibbard, Leah Scragg and Richard Proudfoot; Index.