Shakespeare Survey

by Edited by Kenneth Muir

• ISBN13: 9780521523660
• ISBN10: 0521523664
• 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

1. Shakespeare's romances since 1958: a retrospect F. David Hoeniger

2. Puzzle and artifice: the riddle as metapoetry in Pericles Phyllis Gorfain

3. Pericles in a book-list of 1619 from the English Jesuit Mission and some of the play's special problems Willem Schrickx

4. George Wilkins and the young heir Roger Prior

5. Theatrical virtuosity and poetic complexity in Cymbeline Roger Warren

6. Noble virtue in Cymbeline James Edward Siemon

7. Directing the romances Nick Shrimpton and Richard Proudfoot

8. Shakespeare and the ideas of his time J. W. Lever

9. The letter of the law in The Merchant of Venice E. F. J. Tucker

10. Shakespeare's use of the Timon comedy James C. Bulman, Jr

11. Re-enter the stage direction: 12. Shakespeare and some contemporaries E. A. J. Honigmann

13. The staircases of the frame: new light on the structure of the Globe Neil Carson

14. Shakespeare in Max Beerbohm's theatre criticism Stanley Wells

15. A Danish actress and her conception of the part of Lady Macbeth Henning Krabbe

16. Towards a poor Shakespeare: the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford in 1975 Peter Thomson

17. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study D. J. Palmer, N. W. Bawcutt and Richard Proudfoot

Index.