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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. King Lear: a retrospect, 1939-79 G. R. Hibbard; 2. Some conjectures on the composition of King Lear Arthur F. Kinney; 3. The war in King Lear Gary Taylor; 4. King Lear: art upside-down James Black; 5. 'And that's true too': King Lear and the tension of uncertainty Derek Peat; 6. The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear: a structural comparison Stanley Wells; 7. Medium and message in As You Like It and King Lear Frank McCombie; 8. Playing King Lear: Donald Sinden talks to J. W. R. Meadowcroft; 9. Hamlet's special providence Alan Sinfield; 10. Antony and Cleopatra: 11.'The time of universal peace' Andrew Fichter; 12. Patterns of motion in Antony and Cleopatra Susan Snyder; 13. Theme and structure in The Winter's Tale Roy Battenhouse; 14. Peter Street at the Fortune and the Globe John Orrell; 15. English actors at the courts of Wolfenbüttel, Brussels and Graz during the lifetime of Shakespeare Willem Schrickx; 16. Shakespeare at Stratford and the National Theatre, 1979 Roger Warren; 17. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Harriett Hawkins, Gamini Salgado and George Walton Williams; Index....
