Shakespeare Survey: Volume 5, Textual Criticism

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. Restoring Shakespeare: the modern editor’s task Peter Alexander; 2. Suggestions towards an edition of Shakespeare for French, German and other continental readers Georges A. Bonnard; 3. The 1622 quarto and the first folio texts of Othello Alice Walker; 4. An approach to the problem of Pericles Philip Edwards; 5. The Shakespeare collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge H. M. Adams; 6. New place: the only representation of Shakespeare’s house, from an unpublished manuscript Frank Simpson; 7. Letters to an actor playing Hamlet Christopher Fry; 8. Shakespeare’s imagery: the diabolic images in Othello S. L. Bethell; 9. Suggestions for a new approach to Shakespeare’s imagery R. A. Foakes; 10. Shakespeare’s influence on Pushkin’s dramatic work Tatiana A. Wolff; 11. Shakespeare on the Flemish stage of Belgium, 1876–1951 D. de Gruyter and Wayne Hayward; 12. International news; 13. Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1950; 14. Shakespeare in the Waterloo Road Richard David; 15. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study J. I. M. Stuart, Clifford Leech and James G. McManaway; Books received; Index.