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. Shakespeareâs earliest tragedies: Titus Andronicus and Romeo and Juliet G. K. Hunter; 2. The aesthetics of mutilation in Titus Andronicus Albert H. Tricomi; 3. The motif of psychic division in Richard III William B. Toole; 4. The antic disposition of Richard II Lois Potter; 5. The Prince of Denmark and Claudiusâs Court Juliet McLauchlan; 6. Hamlet and the Moriae Encomium Frank McCombie; 7. The relation of Henry V to Tamburlaine Roy Battenhouse; 8. Shakespeare and the Puritan dynamic Harold Fisch; 9. Equity, The Merchant of Venice and William Lambarde W. Nicholas Knight; 10. âLoveâs labourâs wonâand the occasion of âMuch AdoâRobert F. Fleissner; 11. The date and production of Timon reconsidered James C. Bulman, Jr; 12. Shakespeare, Her Majestyâs Players, and Pembrokeâs Men G. M. Pinciss; 13. Judi Dench talks to Gareth Lloyd Evans; 14. Shakespeare straight and crooked: a review of the 1973 Season at Stratford Peter Thomson; 15. The yearâs contributions to Shakespearian study D. J. Palmer, Nigel Alexander and Richard Proudfoot; Index.