Shakespeare Survey: Volume 15, The Poems and Music

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. Twentieth-century studies in Shakespeare’s songs, sonnets, and poems F. W. Sternfeld, A. Nejgebauer and J. W. Lever; 2. Songs, time, and the rejection of Falstaff Peter J. Seng; 3. Shakespeare’s sonnets and the Elizabethan sonneteers Joan Grundy; 4. Love’s confined doom M. M. Mahood; 5. Beasts and gods: Greene’s Groats-worth of Witte and the social purpose of Venus and Adonis Muriel C. Bradbrook; 6. From Shakespeare’s Venus to Cleopatra’s cupids Adrien Bonjour; 7. Venus and the second chance J. W. Lever; 8. Some observations on The Rape of Lucrece D. C. Allen; 9. An anatomy of The Phoenix and the Turtle Robert Ellrodt; 10. Shakespeare and the ritualists Robert Hapgood; 11. Illustrations of social life IV: the plague F. P. Wilson; 12. The Soest portrait of Shakespeare Levi Fox; 13. International news; 14. Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1960; 15. S. Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet John Russell Brown; 16. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Bernard Harris, W. Moelwyn Merchant and James G. McManaway; Books received; Index.