Shakespeare Survey: Volume 20, Shakespearean and Other Tragedy

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, Fletcher and Baroque tragedy Marco Mincoff; 2. Seneca and the Elizabethans: a case-study in ‘Influence’ G. K. Hunter; 3. George Chapman: tragedy and the providential view of history G. R. Hibbard; 4. Critical disagreement about Œdipus and Hamlet Nigel Alexander; 5. Shakespeare’s thematic modes of speech: Richard II to Henry V Robert Hapgood; 6. Anarchy and order in Richard III and King John Ronald Berman; 7. The staging of parody and parallels in 1 Henry IV John Shaw; 8. Shakespeare’s unnecessary characters Arthur Colby Sprague; 9. Walter Whiter’s notes on Shakespeare Mary Bell; 10. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: its Spanish source Oscar M. Villarejo; 11. The grieves Shakespearian scene designs Sybil Rosenfeld; 12. Shakespeare on the modern stage: past significance and present meaning Robert Weimann; 13. Shakespeare in Brazil Barbara Heliodora C. de M. F. de Almeida; 14. Recent Shakespeare performances in Romania Alexandru Dutu; 15. Shakespeare, the twentieth century and ‘behaviourism’ Gareth Lloyd Evans; 16. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Norman Sanders, Stanley Wells and J. K. Walton; Index.