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Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; 1. Shakespeare's romances: 1900-1957 Philip Edwards; 2. The structure of the last plays Clifford Leech; 3. Six points of stage-craft in The Winter's Tale Nevill Coghill; 4. History and histrionics in Cymbeline J. P. Brockbank; 5. Shakespeare's hand in The Two Noble Kinsmen Kenneth Muir; 6. Music and its function in the romances of Shakespeare J. M. Nosworthy; 7. The magic of Prospero C. J. Sisson; 8. The new way with Shakespeare's texts: an introduction for lay readers J. Dover Wilson; 9. A portrait of a Moor Bernard Harris; 10. The funeral obsequies of Sir all-in-new-fashion F. P. Wilson; 11. Martin Peerson and the Blackfriars Mark Eccles; 12. Dramatic references from the Scudamore Papers J. P. Feil; 13. International news; 14. Hamlet costumes: a correction Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson; 15. Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1956; 16. Unto Caesar: a review of recent productions Roy Walker; 17. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Kenneth Muir, R. A. Foakes and James G. McManaway; Books received; Index to volume 11; General index to volumes 1-10....
