Shakespeare Survey: Volume 13, King Lear

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 catharsis of King Lear J. Stampfer; 2. Lear’s last speech J. K. Walton; Albany Leo Kirschbaum; 3. Madness in King Lear Kenneth Muir; 4. The influence of Gorboduc on King Lear Barbara Heliodora Carneiro De Mendonça; 5. Some aspects of the style of King Lear Winifred M. T. Nowottny; 6. Keats and King Lear D. G. James; 7. King Lear on the stage: a producer’s reflections Arnold Szyfman; 8. Costume in King Lear W. Moelwyn Merchant; 9. The marriage-contracts in Measure for Measure Ernest Schanzer; 10. Tom Skelton – a seventeenth-century Jester E. W. Ives; 11. Illustrations of social life III: street cries F. P. Wilson; 12. An Elizabethan stage drawing? R. A. Foakes and R. T. Rickert; 13. Was there a music-room in Shakespeare’s Globe? Richard Hosley; 14. International notes; 15. Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1958; 16. Three adaptations John Russell Brown; 17. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Bernard Harris, R. A. Foakes and James G. McManaway; Books received; Index.