Shakespeare Survey: Volume 40, Current Approaches to Shakespeare through Language, Text and Theatre

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 illustrations; 1. Reconstructing Shakespeare, or Harlotry in Bardolatry Charles Marowitz; 2. Playing Shakespeare Peggy Ashcroft; 3. Take me to your Leda Terence Hawkes; 4. Sign theory and Shakespeare Marvin Rosenberg; 5. Time in Richard III Guy Hamel; 6. New concepts of staging A Midsummer Night’s Dream Maik Hamburger; 7. Henry V as working-house of ideology Günter Walch; 8. Shakespeare and his sources: observations on the critical history of Julius Caesar Robert S. Miola; 9. The speculative eye: problematic self-knowledge in Julius Caesar William O. Scott; 10. Learning by talking: conversation in As You Like It Martha Ronk Lifson; 11. Measure for Measure: mirror for mirror Ruth Nevo; 12. Allegory and irony in Othello Antoinette B. Dauber; 13. Cruelty, King Lear, and the South African Land Act 1913 Martin Orkin; 14. The rationale of current bibliographical methods: printing house studies, computer-aided compositor studies, and the use of statistical methods Manfred Draudt; 15. Shakespeare’s late plays at Stratford, Ontario Roger Warren; 16. Shakespeare performances in London, Manchester, and Stratford-upon-Avon 1985–86 Nicholas Shrimpton; 17. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study R. S. White, Richard Dutton and MacDonald P. Jackson; Index.