Shakespeare Survey: Volume 27, Shakespeare’s Early Tragedies

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 earliest tragedies: Titus Andronicus and Romeo and Juliet G. K. Hunter; 2. The aesthetics of mutilation in Titus Andronicus Albert H. Tricomi; 3. The motif of psychic division in Richard III William B. Toole; 4. The antic disposition of Richard II Lois Potter; 5. The Prince of Denmark and Claudius’s Court Juliet McLauchlan; 6. Hamlet and the Moriae Encomium Frank McCombie; 7. The relation of Henry V to Tamburlaine Roy Battenhouse; 8. Shakespeare and the Puritan dynamic Harold Fisch; 9. Equity, The Merchant of Venice and William Lambarde W. Nicholas Knight; 10. ‘Love’s labour’s won’ and the occasion of ‘Much Ado’ Robert F. Fleissner; 11. The date and production of Timon reconsidered James C. Bulman, Jr; 12. Shakespeare, Her Majesty’s Players, and Pembroke’s Men G. M. Pinciss; 13. Judi Dench talks to Gareth Lloyd Evans; 14. Shakespeare straight and crooked: a review of the 1973 Season at Stratford Peter Thomson; 15. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study D. J. Palmer, Nigel Alexander and Richard Proudfoot; Index.