Shakespeare Survey

by Edited by Allardyce Nicoll

• ISBN13: 9780521523530
• ISBN10: 0521523532
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 year's 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 Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start. Now backnumbers are gradually being reissued in paperback.

Table of Contents

List of plates

Editorial preface

Part I. The Daily Life: 1. London and the court T. F. Reddaway

2. Provincial life W. G. Hoskins

3. Sailors and the sea D. B. Quinn

4. Elizabethans and foreigners G. K. Hunter

5. Education and apprenticeship M. H. Curtis

6. The law and the lawyers E. W. Ives

7. London's prisons Clifford Dobb

Part II. Philosophy and Fancy: 8. The commonwealth Philip Styles

9. Dissent and satire Bernard Harris

10. Scientific thought Marie Boas Hall

11. Medicine and public health F. N. L. Poynter

12. The folds of folklore Katharine M. Briggs

13. Symbols and significances G. Pellegrini

Part III. Art and Entertainment: 14. Actors and theatres William A. Armstrong

15. The Printing of Books Arthur Brown

16. Music and ballads F. W. Stepnfeld

17. The foundations of Elizabethan language Mumel St Clare Byrne

Notes

Index.