Shakespeare Survey: Volume 32, The Middle 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 plates; 1. Shakespeare’s middle comedies: a generation of criticism; M. M. Mahood; 2. ‘Perfect types of womanhood’: Rosalind, Beatrice and Viola in Victorian criticism and performance Russell Jackson; 3. The stage representation of the ‘Kill Claudio’ sequence in Much Ado About Nothing J. F. Cox; 4. As You Like It adapted: Charles Johnson’s Love in a Forest Edith Holding; 5. Social relations and the social order in Much Ado About Nothing Elliot Krieger; 6. Sexual disguise in As You Like It and Twelfth Night Nancy K. Hayles; 7. Twelfth Night and the myth of Echo and Narcissus D. J. Palmer; 8. ‘Smiling at grief’: some techniques of comedy in Twelfth Night and Così fan tutte Roger Warren; 9. ‘My lady’s a Catayan, we are politicians, Maluolios a peg-a-ramsie’ (Twelfth Night II, iii, 77–8) Gustav Ungerer; 10. The importance of being marcade J. M. Nosworthy; 11. A Hebrew source for The Merchant of Venice S. J. Schönfeld; 12. The marriage contracts in Measure for Measure: a reconsideration Karl P. Wenterdorf; 13. Richard III: antecedents of Clarence’s dream Harold F. Brooks; 14. Deep plots and indiscretions in ‘The murder of Gonzago’ M. R. Woodhead; 15. ‘What isn’t to leave betimes?’ Proverbs and logic in Hamlet Joan Larsen Klein; 16. The Tempest: language and society Stanton B. Garner, Jr; 17. Pictorial evidence for a possible replica of the London Fortune Theatre in Gdansk Jerzy Limon; 18. A year of comedies: Stratford 1978 Roger Warren; 19. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study R. F. Hill, E. D. Pendry and George Walton Williams; Index.