Shakespeare Survey: Volume 37, Shakespeare\'s Earlier 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 illustrations; 1. Criticism of the comedies up to The Merchant of Venice: 1953–82 R. S. White; 2. Plotting the early comedies: The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona K. Tetzeli Von Rosador; 3. The good marriage of Katherine and Petruchio David Daniell; 4. Shrewd and kindly farce Peter Saccio; 5. Illustrations to A Midsummer Night’s Dream before 1920 Kenneth Garlick; 6. The nature of Portia’s victory: turning to men in The Merchant of Venice Keith Geary; 7. Nature’s originals: value in Shakespearian pastoral William W. E. Slights; 8. ‘Contrarieties agree’: an aspect of dramatic technique in Henry VI Roger Warren; 9. Falstaff’s broken voice John W. Sider; 10. ‘He who the sword of heaven will bear’: the Duke versus Angelo in Measure for Measure N. W. Bawcutt; 11. War and sex in All’s Well That Ends Well R. B. Parker; 12. Changing places in Othello Michael Neill; 13. Prospero’s lime tree and the pursuit of Vanitas Rosemary Wright; 14. Shakespearian character study to 1800 John Bligh; 15. How German is Shakespeare in Germany? Recent trends in criticism and performance in West Germany Werner Habicht; 16. Shakespeare performances in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, 1982–3 Nicholas Shrimpton; 17. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Brian Gibbons, Lois Potter and MacDonald P. Jackson; Index.