Shakespeare Survey: Volume 9, Hamlet

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. Studies in Hamlet, 1901–1955 Clifford Leech; 2. English Hamlets of the twentieth century E. Martin Browne; 3. The date of Hamlet E. A. J. Honigmann; 4. Hamlet and the court of Elsinore R. A. Foakes; 5. Hamlet’s ‘sullied’ or ‘solid’ flesh: a bibliographical case-history Fredson Bowers; 6. Hamlet at the Globe George F. Reynolds; 7. Hamlet costumes from Garrick to Gielgud D. A. Russell; 8. Hamlet at the Comédie-Française: 1769–1896 Paul Benchettrit; 9. The new way with Shakespeare’s texts: an introduction for lay readers J. Dover Wilson; 10. Shakespeare in the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana Georges A. Bonnard; 11. An unpublished contemporary setting of a Shakespeare song John P. Cutts; 12. Garrick’s Stratford Jubilee: reactions in France and Germany Martha Winburn England; 13. Shakespeare and Bohemia Otakar Vocadlo; 14. International notes; 15. Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1954; 16. The tragic curve: a review of two productions of Macbeth Richard David; 17. The year’s contributions to Shakespearian study Kenneth Muir, R. A. Foakes and James G. McManaway; Books received; Index.