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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 and the living dramatist Wole Soyinka; 2. Blood and wine: tragic ritual from Aeschylus to Soyinka Philip Brockbank; 3. Hamlet andante/Hamlet allegro: Tom Stoppard's two versions Jill L. Levenson; 4. Auden, Shakespeare, and the defence of poetry Susan Snyder; 5. Graves on lovers, and Shakespeare at a lovers' funeral Peter Bilton; 6. Tragic balance in Hamlet Philip Edwards; 7. Hamlet across space and time Lu Gu-Sun; 8. Shakespeare's scripts and the modern director Alan C. Dessen; 9. 'He Shall Live a Man Forbid': Ingmar Bergman's Macbeth Ann Fridén; 10. Komisarjevsky at Stratford-upon-Avon Ralph Berry; 11. Troilus and Cressida and the definition of beauty Juliet Dusinberre; 12. The pastoral reckoning in Cymbeline Michael Taylor; 13. New created creatures: Ralph Crane and the stage directions in The Tempest John Jowett; 14. Arden of Faversham Alexander Leggatt; 15. 'Pickleherring' and English actors in Germany Willem Schrickx; 16. Shakespeare performances in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, 1981-2 Nicholas Shrimpton; 17. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Brian Gibbons, Lois Potter and George Walton Williams; Index....
