Shakespeare Survey: Volume 35, Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century

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. Before the Shakespeare revolution: developments in the study of nineteenth-century Shakespearian production Russell Jackson; 2. The Meminger Company and English Shakespeare Michael R. Booth; 3. Shakespeare at the Burgtheater: from Heinrich Anschütz to Josef Kainz Simon Williams; 4. Shakespeare on the Melbourne stage, 1843–61 Dennis Bartholomeusz; 5. Shakespeare in Hazlitt’s theatre criticism Stanley Wells; 6. Characterization of the four young lovers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Joan Stansbury; 7. Queenly shadows: on mediation in two comedies Bruce Erlich; 8. Language, theme, and character in Twelfth Night Elizabeth M. Yearling; 9. The art of the comic duologue in three plays by Shakespeare Robert Wilcher; 10. ‘Spanish’ Othello: the making of Shakespeare’s Moor Barbara Everett; 11. Ferdinand and Miranda at chess Bryan Loughrey and Neil Taylor; 12. Shakespeare’s Latin citations: the editorial problem J. W. Binns; 13. The theatre at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1605 John Orrell; 14. Interpretations of Shakespearian comedy, 1981 Roger Warren; 15. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Harriett Hawkins, Gamini Salgado and George Walton Williams; Index.