Shakespeare Survey: Volume 31, Shakespeare and the Classical World; an Index to Surveys 21-30

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. The ancient world in Shakespeare: authenticity or anachronism? a retrospect John W. Velz; 2. ‘A piece of skilful painting’ in Shakespeare’s Lucrece S. Clark Hulse; 3. Philomel in Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline Ann Thompson; 4. Apulcius and the Bradleian tragedies John J. M. Tobin; 5. ‘The choice of Hercules’ in Antony and Cleopatra John Coates; 6. Structure, inversion, and game in Shakespeare’s classical world Bruce Erlich; 7. Truth and utterance in The Winter’s Tale A. F. Bellette; 8. Adumbrations of The Tempest in A Midsummer Night’s Dream G. R. Hibbard; 9. The old honor and the new courtesy G. M. Pinciss; 10. Henry V: the chorus and the audience G. P. Jones; 11. ‘The devil’s party’: virtues and vices in Measure for Measure Harriett Hawkins; 12. Shakespeare and the healing power of deceit Philip Edwards; 13. Shakespeare’s man descending a staircase: sonnets 126 to 154 Michael J. B. Allen; 14. A new view of Bankside Graham Parry; 15. Comedies and Histories at Two Stratfords, 1977 Roger Warren; 16. Tamburlaine the Great re-discovered J. S. Cunningham and Roger Warren; 17. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study R. F. Hill, E. D. Pendry and George Walton Williams; Index; General index to surveys 21-30.