Shakespeare Survey: Volume 26, Shakespeare’s Jacobean 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. Studies in Shakespearian and other Jacobean tragedy, 1918–1972: a retrospect Clifford Leech; 2. ‘Form and cause conjoin’d’: Hamlet and Shakespeare’s workshop Keith Brown; 3. The art of cruelty: Hamlet and Vindice R. A. Foakes; 4. From tragedy to tragi-comedy: King Lear as prologue Glynne Wickham; 5. Jacobean tragedy and the mannerist style Cyrus Hoy; 6. King Lear and doomsday Mary Lascelles; 7. Macbeth on horseback Leah Scragg; 8. Shakespeare’s misanthrope Harry Levin; 9. Shakespeare’s misanthrope Harry Levin; 10. Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus, Shakespeare’s heroic tragedies: a Jacobean adjustment J. L. Simmons; 11. Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis sonnets C. H. Hobday; 12. Orlando: athlete of virtue John Doebler; 13. The unfolding of Measure for Measure James Black; 14. Shakespeare and the eye Cecil S. Emden; 15. No rome of safety: the Royal Shakespeare Season 1972 reviewed Peter Thomson; 16. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Norman Sanders, Nigel Alexander and Richard Proudfoot; Index.