Shakespeare Survey: Volume 23, Shakespeare’s Language

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 and the tune of the time Bridget Cusack; 2. Some functions of Shakespearian word-formation Vivian Salmon; 3. Guide-lines for interpreting the uses of the suffix ‘-ed’ in Shakespeare’s English G. V. Smithers; 4. Shakespeare’s use of colloquial language Kenneth Hudson; 5. Words, action, and artistic economy G. R. Hibbard; 6. Antony and Cleopatra: the limits of mythology Harold Fisch; 7. Shakespeare’s War with Time: the sonnets and Richard II Michel Grivelet; 8. Shakespeare and Christian doctrine: some qualifications Edward M. Wilson; 9. Shakespeare’s poets Kenneth Muir; 10. The text of Coleridge’s 1811–12 Shakespeare lectures R. A. Foakes; 11. Shakespeare studies in German: 1959–68 Werner Habicht and Hans Walter Gabler; 12. A neglected Jones/Webb Theatre project: ‘Barber-Surgeons’ hall writ large’ D. F. Rowan; 13. Interpretation of experience? Shakespeare at Stratford Gareth Lloyd Evans; 14. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study G. R. Hibbard, Leah Scragg and Richard Proudfoot; Index.