Shakespeare Survey: Volume 19, Macbeth

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. Macbeth in the twentieth century G. K. Hunter; 2. The criminal as tragic hero: dramatic methods R. B. Heilman; 3. Antithesis in Macbeth G. I. Duthie; 4. Why was Duncan’s blood golden? W. A. Murray; 5. Image and symbol in Macbeth Kenneth Muir; 6. Macbeth and the furies Arthur R. McGee; 7. Hell-castle and its door-keeper Glynne Wickham; 8. ‘His friend-like queen’ W. Moelwyn Merchant; 9. The friend-like queen: a note on Macbeth and Seneca’s Medea Inga-Stina Ewbank; 10. Shakespeare at street level D. S. Bland; 11. New findings with regard to the 1624 protection list John P. Curtis; 12. Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1965; 13. The Royal Shakespeare Company 1965 John Russell Brown; 14. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Norman Sanders, Stanley Wells and J. K. Walton; Index.