Shakespeare Survey: Volume 1, Shakespeare and his Stage

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

Contents

List of illustrations; 1. Studies in the Elizabethan stage since 1900 Allardyce Nicoll; 2. Titus Andronicus on the stage in 1595 J. Dover Wilson; 3. A note on the Swan Theatre drawing; 4. The bankside theatres: early engravings I. A. Shapiro; 5. Shakespeare and the Blackfriars Theatre Gerald Eades Bentley; 6. Shakespeare’s bad poetry Hardin Craig; 7. The Folger Shakespeare Library James G. McManaway; 8. The heritage of Shakespeare’s birthplace Levi Fox; 9. Three Shakespearian productions: a conversation Micheál MacLiammóir; 10. Four Lears Charles Landstone; 11. London productions George Rylands and Una Ellis-Fermor; 12. Stratford productions H. S. Bennett and George Rylands; 13. International news; 14. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Una Ellis-Fermor, Clifford Leech and James G. McManaway; Books received; Index.