Shakespeare Survey

The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.

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.

List of plates; 1. Fifty years of the criticism of Shakespeare's style: a retrospect M. C. Bradbrook; 2. Shakespeare and Elizabethan English Gladys D. Willcock; 3. The poet and the player George Rylands; 4. Shakespeare's orthography in Venus and Adonis and some early quartos A. C. Partridge; 5. The new way with Shakespeare's texts: an introduction for lay J. Dover Wilson; 6. The Red Bull Company and the importunate widow Charles J. Sisson; 7. Vaulting the rails J. W. Saunders; 8. Shakespeare and the acting of Edward Alleyn William A. Armstrong; 9. The Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library F. J. Patrick; 10. Shakespeare's Italy Mario Praz; 11. International notes; 12. Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1952; 13. Acting Shakespeare: modern tendencies in playing and production T. C. Kemp; 14. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Clifford Leech, Harold Jenkins and James G. McManaway; Books received; Index.

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of criticism and performance. For the first time, numbers 1-50 are being reissued in paperback.