Shakespeare Survey: Volume 2, Shakespearian Production

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 illustrations; 1. Fifty years of Shakespearian production: 1898–1948 M. St Clare Byrne; 2. An original drawing of the Globe Theatre I. A. Shapiro; 3. The projected amphitheatre Leslie Hotson; 4. Ben Jonson and Julius Caesar J. Dover Wilson; 5. The Brooke of Sir Thomas More and its problems R. C. Bald; 6. The Shakespearian additions in The Brooke of Sir Thomas More; 7. The Renaissance background of Measure for Measure Elizabeth M. Pope; 8. The individualization of Shakespeare’s characters through imagery Mikhail M. Morozov; 9. Trend of Shakespeare scholarship Hardin Craig; 10. Shakespeare in France: 1900–1948 Henri Fluchère; 11. International news; 12. Shakespeare in New York: 1947–1948 Rosamond Gilder; 13. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Una Ellis-Fermor, D. J. Gordon and James G. McManaway; Books received; Index.