Shakespeare Survey: Volume 12, Elizabethan Theatre

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. The open stage: Elizabethan or existentialist? George R. Kernodle; 2. The lantern of taste C. Walter Hodges; 3. Was there a typical Elizabethan stage? W. F. Rothwell; 4. On reconstructing a practicable Elizabethan public playhouse Richard Southern; 5. The discovery-space in Shakespeare’s Globe Richard Hosley; 6. ‘Passing over the stage’ Allardyce Nicoll; 7. The actor at the foot of Shakespeare’s platform J. L. Stylan; 8. Elizabethan stage-practice and the transmutation of source material by the dramatists Rudolf Stamm; 9. The Maddermarket Theatre and the playing of Shakespeare Nugent Monck; 10. Actors and scholars: a view of Shakespeare in the modern theatre Richard David; 11. Cleopatra as Isis Michael Lloyd; 12. Shakespeare’s friends: Hathaways and Burmans at Shottery C. J. Sisson; 13. Illustrations of social life II: a butcher and some social pests F. P. Wilson; 14. International news; Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1957; 15. The whirligig of time, a review of recent productions Roy Walker; 16. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Clifford Leech, R. A. Foakes and James G. McManaway; Books received; Index.