Shakespeare Survey: Volume 44, Shakespeare and Politics

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

1. Shakespeare and politics Blair Worden; 2. Language, politics, and poverty in Shakespearian drama William C. Carroll; 3. Two versions of Coup d’Etat, rebellion and revolution Pierre Sahel; 4. Women, language, and history in The Rape of Lucrece Philippa Berry; 5. Love in Venice Catherine Belsey; 6. Two kingdoms for half a crown Dominique Goy-Blanquet; 7. ‘Fashion it thus’: Julius Caesar and the politics of theatrical representation John Drakakis; 8. Demystifying the mystery of State, King Lear and the world turned upside down Margot Heinemann; 9. Tragedy, King Lear and the politics of the heart Tom McAlindon; 10. The politics of Shakespeare production John Russell Brown; 11. Shakespeare in the trenches Balz Engler; 12. Ralph Crane, Shakespeare’s earliest editor T. H. Howard-Hill; 13. Shakespeare’s falconry Maurice Pope; 14. Telling the story of Shakespeare’s playhouse world Roslyn Knutson; 15. Shakespeare performances in England, 1989–1990 Peter Holland; 16. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January–December 1989 compiled by N. Rathbone; 17. Critical studies reviewed by R. S. White; 18. Shakespeare’s life, times, and stage reviewed by Richard Dutton; 19. Editions and textual studies reviewed by Henry Woudhuysen; Index.