Shakespeare Survey: Volume 8, The Comedies

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. For the first time, numbers 1-50 are being reissued in paperback, available separately and as a set.

• Most volumes of Survey have long been out of print in hardback. This is the first time we have published in paperback • Each volume is devoted to the year’s theme • Each volume contains reviews of critical books and theatre performances

List of plates; 1. The interpretation of Shakespeare’s comedies: 1900–1953 John Russell Brown; 2. Comic form in Measure for Measure Nevill Coghill; 3. Troilus and Cressida Kenneth Muir; 4. As You Like It Harold Jenkins; 5. The integrity of Shakespeare: illustrated from Cymbeline J. M. Nosworthy; 6. Shakespeare’s comic prose Ludwig Borinski; 7. A note on a production of Twelfth Night Ngaio Marsh; 8. Producing the comedies Sir Barry Jackson; 9. The new way with Shakespeare’s texts: recent work on the text of Romeo and Juliet J. Dover Wilson; 10. The significance of a date I. A. Shapiro; 11. Of stake and stage John Briley; 12. The celestial plane in Shakespeare Roy Walker; 13. International notes; 14. Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1953; 15. Shakespeare at Stratford, Ontario Tyrone Guthrie; 16. Plays pleasant and plays unpleasant Richard David; 17. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Clifford Leech, I. A. Shapiro and James G. McManaway; Books received; Index.