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
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. For the first time, numbers 1-50 are being reissued in paperback.
Synopsis
The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
Table of Contents
List of plates; 1. The problem plays, 1920 1970: a retrospect Michael Jamieson; 2. âSons and daughters of the gameâ: an essay on Shakespeareâs Troilus and Cressida R. A. Yoder; 3. The opinions of the audience: theory and practice in Peter Brookâs Measure for Measure Herbert S. Weil, Jr; 4. Manâs need and Godâs plan in Measure for Measure and Mark IV Sarah C. Velz; 5. The design of Allâs Well That Ends Well R. L. Smallwood; 6. Directing problem plays: John Barton talks to Gareth Lloyd Evans; 7. The Queen Mab speech in Romeo and Juliet Sidney Thomas; 8. Timeâs deformed handâ: sequence, consequence, and inconsequence in The Comedy of Errors Gamini Salgado; 9. Faith and fashion in Much Ado About Nothing David Ormerod; 10. The Merry Wives of Windsor as a Halloweâen play Jeanne Addison Roberts; 11. The Tempest at the turn of the century: cross-currents in production Mary M. Nilan; 12. Variations within a source: from Isaiah XXIX to The Tempest Ann Pasternak Slater; 13. The life of George Wilkins Roger Prior; 14. A neurotic Portia Murray Biggs; 15. Of an age and for all time: Shakespeare at Stratford Richard David; 16. The yearâs contributions to Shakespearian study Norman Sanders, Nigel Alexander and Richard Proudfoot; Index.