Shakespeare Survey: Volume 42, Shakespeare and the Elizabethans

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. Jack hath not Jill: failed courtship in Lyly and Shakespeare David Bevington; 2. Truth and art in history plays G. K. Hunter; 3. Chronicles and mythmaking in Shakespeare’s Joan of Arc Richard F. Hardin; 4. King John and Embarrassing Women Juliet Dusinberre; 5. Golding’s Ovid, Shakespeare’s ‘Small Latin’, and the Real Object of Mockery in ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ Anthony Brian Taylor; 6. Ovid and the Sonnets; or, did Shakespeare Feel the Anxiety of Influence? Jonathan Bate; 7. The Play of Sir Thomas More and Some Contemporary Events E. A. J. Honigmann; 8. ‘Nobody’s Perfect’: Actors’ Memories and Shakespeare’s Plays of the 1590s Lois Potter; 9. The Boyhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines P. H. Parry; 10. Shakespeare’s ‘Brawl Ridiculous’ Charles Edelman; 11. Shakespeare’s Handwriting Giles E. Dawson; 12. Shakespeare’s Performances in England, 1987–8 Stanley Wells; 13. Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January-December 1987 compiled by N. Rathbone; 14. The year’s contributions to Shakespeare studies; 15. Critical Studies reviewed by R. S. White; 16. Shakespeare’s Life, Times and Stage reviewed by Richard Dutton; 17. Editions and Textual Studies reviewed by MacDonald P. Jackson.