Shakespeare Survey: Volume 18, Shakespeare Then Till Now

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. Chiding the plays: then til now Charles R. Crow; 2. ‘The great variety of readers’ Arthur Brown; 3. Shakespeare’s text - then, now and tomorrow Charlton Hinman; 4. ‘Hamlet’ then til now Harold Jenkins; 5. Shakespeare’s imagery - then and now Kenneth Muir; 6. The study and practice of Shakespeare production John Russell Brown; 7. Shakespeare on the screen Laurence Kitchin; 8. Shakespeare in the opera house Winton Dean; 9. Some Shakespearian music, 1660–1900 D. S. Hoffman; 10. Shakespeare in America: a survey to 1900 Robert Falk; 11. International notes; Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1962–4; 12. Three kinds of Shakespeare: 1964 productions at London, Stratford-upon-Avon and Edinburgh John Russell Brown; 13. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Norman Sanders, Stanley W. Wells and James G. McManaway; Books received; Index.