Shakespeare Survey: Volume 16, Shakespeare in the Modern World

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. An obligation to Shakespeare and the public Louis B. Wright; 2. Our closeness to Shakespeare R. M. Samarin; 3. The popularity of Shakespeare: an examination of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre’s repertory Norman Sanders; 4. Shakespeare and the fashion of these times J. P. Brockbank; 5. An approach to Shakespearian tragedy: the ‘actor’ image in Macbeth V. Y. Kantax; 6. Shakespeare’s impact today in France A. José Axelrad; 7. Shakespeare and the modern world Wolfgang Clemen; 8. Modern ‘theatrical’ translations of Shakespeare Rudolf Stamm; 9. Shakespeare as ‘corrupter of words’ Michel Grivelet; 10. Shakespeare in Ghana D. S. Baker; 11. Timon of Athens David Cook; 12. Who strutted and bellowed? A. J. Gurr; 13. Shakespeare in Planché’s extravaganzas Stanley Wells; 14. ‘Our Will Shakespeare’ and Lope de Vega: an unrecorded contemporary document Paul Morgan; 15. Shakespeare and the Mask Philip Parsons; International notes; Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1961; 16. Acting Shakespeare today Russell Brown; 17. Canada’s achievement Arnold Edinborough; 18. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Philip Edwards, Norman Sanders and J. G. McManaway; Books received; Index.