Shakespeare Survey: Volume 17, Shakespeare in his Own Age

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; Editorial preface; Part I. The Daily Life: 1. London and the court T. F. Reddaway; 2. Provincial life W. G. Hoskins; 3. Sailors and the sea D. B. Quinn; 4. Elizabethans and foreigners G. K. Hunter; 5. Education and apprenticeship M. H. Curtis; 6. The law and the lawyers E. W. Ives; 7. London’s prisons Clifford Dobb; Part II. Philosophy and Fancy: 8. The commonwealth Philip Styles; 9. Dissent and satire Bernard Harris; 10. Scientific thought Marie Boas Hall; 11. Medicine and public health F. N. L. Poynter; 12. The folds of folklore Katharine M. Briggs; 13. Symbols and significances G. Pellegrini; Part III. Art and Entertainment: 14. Actors and theatres William A. Armstrong; 15. The Printing of Books Arthur Brown; 16. Music and ballads F. W. Stepnfeld; 17. The foundations of Elizabethan language Mumel St Clare Byrne; Notes; Index.