Shakespeare Survey: Volume 57, Macbeth and its Afterlife

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 that year\'s textual and critical studies, and of the year\'s major British performances. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. 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. Most volumes of Survey have long been out of print. Backnumbers are gradually being reissued in paperback.

List of illustrations; 1. Humane statute and the gentle weal: historical reading and historical allegory Kathleen McLuskie; 2. Macbeth’s knowledge Arthur F. Kinney; 3. \'The grace of grace’ and double-talk in Macbeth Richard C. McCoy; 4. Remind me: how many children had Lady Macbeth? Carol Chillington Rutter; 5. Taking Macbeth out of himself: Davenant, Garrick, Schiller and Verdi Simon Williams; 6. ‘Two truths are told’: afterlives and histories of Macbeths William C. Carroll; 7. Doing all that becomes a man: the reception and afterlife of the Macbeth actor, 1744–1889 Paul Prescott; 8. Macbeth and Kierkegaard Simon Palfrey; 9. Monsieur Macbeth: from Jarry to Ionesco Ruth Morse; 10. The politics of sleepwalking: American Lady Macbeths Katherine Rowe; 11. MacBird! and Macbeth: topicality and imitation in Barbara Garson’s satirical pastiche Tom Blackburn; 12. Mick Jagger Macbeth Deanne Williams; 13. ‘The Zulu Macbeth’: the value of an ‘African Shakespeare’ Natasha Distiller; 14. ‘A drum, a drum - Macbeth doth come’: when Birnam Wood moved to China Ruru Li; 15. The banquet of Scotland (PA) Lauren Shohet; 16. Scoff power in Love’s Labour’s Lost and the Inns of Court: language in context Lynne Magnusson; 17. Mercury, boy yet and the ‘harsh’ words of Love’s Labour’s Lost Frederick W. Clayton and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton; 18. Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More and asylum seekers E. A. J. Honigmann; 19. Hal as self-styled redeemer: the harrowing of hell and Henry IV Part I Beatrice Groves; 20. Mr Hamlet of Broadway Frances Teague; 21. Shakespeare performances in England, 2003 Michael Dobson; 22. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January–December 2002 James Shaw; The Year’s Contributions to Shakespeare Studies: 23. Critical studies reviewed by Ruth Morse; 24. Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Emma Smith; 25. Editions and textual studies reviewed by Eric Rasmussen; Books received; Index.