Shakespeare Survey: Volume 21, Othello, with an Index to Surveys 11-20

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. Othello: a retrospect, 1900–67 Helen Gardner; 2. The two parts of Othello Ned B. Allen; 3. Othello: a tragedy built on a comic structure Barbara Heliodora C. De Mendonça; 4. Othello and the pattern of Shakespearian tragedy G. R. Hibbard; 5. Othello, Lapanto and the Cyprus Wars Emrys Jones; 6. Iago-Vice or devil Leah Scragg; 7. Thomas Rymer and Othello Nigel Alexander; 8. Delacroix’s Tragedy of Desdemona Christina Merchant; 9. Verdi’s Othello: a Shakespearian masterpiece Winton Dean; 10. William Hervey and Shakespeare’s sonnets I. R. W. Cook; 11. Imagery and irony in Henry V C. H. Hobday; 12. Shakespeare and the actors: notes towards interpretations Gareth Lloyd Evans; 13. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study G. R. Hibbard, E. A. J. Honigmann and J. K. Walton; Index to volume 21; General index to volumes 11-20.