Shakespeare Survey: Volume 34, Characterization in Shakespeare

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. Shakespeare’s open secret Kenneth Muir; 2. The emergence of character criticism, 1774–1800 Brian Vickers; 3. Society and the individual in Shakespeare’s conception of character Robert Weimann; 4. Realistic convention and conventional realism in Shakespeare A. D. Nuttall; 5. On expectation and surprise: Shakespeare’s construction of character Herbert S. Weil, Jr; 6. Shakespeare and the ventriloquists Leo Salingar; 7. The rheoretic of character construction: Othello Giorgio Melchiori; 8. Characterizing Coriolanus Michael Goldman; 9. The ironic reading of The Rape of Lucrece and the problem of external evidence Richard Levin; 10. The unity of Romeo and Juliet T. J. Cribb; 11. No abuse: the prince and Falstaff in the tavern scenes of Henry IV J. McLaverty; 12. Twelfth Night: the experience of the audience Ralph Berry; 13. Plays and playing in Twelfth Night Karen Greif; 14. Sceptical visions: Shakespeare’s tragedies and Jonson’s comedies Russ McDonald; 15. Shakespeare in performance, 1980 Roger Warren; 16. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Harriett Hawkins, Gamini Salgado and George Walton Williams; Index.