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. Shakespeare and the tune of the time Bridget Cusack; 2. Some functions of Shakespearian word-formation Vivian Salmon; 3. Guide-lines for interpreting the uses of the suffix â-edâin Shakespeareâs English G. V. Smithers; 4. Shakespeareâs use of colloquial language Kenneth Hudson; 5. Words, action, and artistic economy G. R. Hibbard; 6. Antony and Cleopatra: the limits of mythology Harold Fisch; 7. Shakespeareâs War with Time: the sonnets and Richard II Michel Grivelet; 8. Shakespeare and Christian doctrine: some qualifications Edward M. Wilson; 9. Shakespeareâs poets Kenneth Muir; 10. The text of Coleridgeâs 1811 12 Shakespeare lectures R. A. Foakes; 11. Shakespeare studies in German: 1959 68 Werner Habicht and Hans Walter Gabler; 12. A neglected Jones/Webb Theatre project: âBarber-Surgeonsâhall writ largeâD. F. Rowan; 13. Interpretation of experience? Shakespeare at Stratford Gareth Lloyd Evans; 14. The yearâs contributions to Shakespearian study G. R. Hibbard, Leah Scragg and Richard Proudfoot; Index.