Shakespeare Survey: Volume 14, Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

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. Studies in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama since 1900 Arthur Brown; 2. Shakespeare and Mundy I. A. Shapiro; 3. Marlowe as provocative agent in Shakespeare’s early plays Nicholas Brooke; 4. The tragedy of revenge in Shakespeare and Webster Harold Jenkins; 5. The simplicity of Thomas Heywood Michel Grivelet; 6. The tragic vision of Fulke Greville Ivor Morris; 7. Shakespeare’s gentleness Herbert Howarth; 8. Milton on Shakespeare R. K. Das Gupta; 9. An unrecorded Elizabethan performance of Titus Andronicus Gustav Ungerer; 10. Stratford-upon-Avon a hundred years ago; 11. International notes; 12. Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1959; 13. Three directors: a review of recent productions John Russell Brown; 14. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Bernard Harris, W. Moelwyn Merchant and James G. McManaway; Books received; Index.