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The theme for Shakespeare Survey 62 is 'Close Encounters with Shakespeare's Text'.
List of contents
1. Shakespeare, text and paratext Sonia Massai; 2. The popularity of Shakespeare in print Lukas Erne; 3. The continuing importance of new bibliographical method Paul Werstine; 4. 'Honour the real thing': Shakespeare, trauma and Titus Andronicus in South Africa Catherine Silverstone; 5. 'O, these encounterers': on Shakespeare's meetings and partings David Hillman; 6. A play of modals: grammar and potential action in early Shakespeare Lynne Magnusson; 7. Merry, Marry, Mary: Shakespearean word-play and Twelfth Night Thomas Rist; 8. A subtle point: sleeves, tents, and 'Ariachne's broken woof' (again) Hester Lees-Jeffries; 9. The look of Othello Michael Neill; 10. Red button Shakespeare Rob Conkie; 11. 'Mark you/His absolute shall?': multitudinous tongues and contested words in Coriolanus Alysia Kolentsis; 12. Chagall's Tempest: an autobiographical reading Hanna Scolnicov; 13. Reading illustrated editions: methodology and the limits of interpretation Stuart Sillars; 14. Close encounters with Anne Brontë's Shakespeare Paul Edmondson; 15. Shakespeare and the magic lantern Judith Buchanan; 16. Shakespeare and the coconuts: close encounters in post-apartheid South Africa Natasha Distiller; 17. The Schrödinger effect: reading and misreading performance Andrew James Hartley; 18. Behind the scenes Robert Shaughnessy; 19. Inner monologues: realist acting and/as Shakespearean performance text Roberta Barker; 20. More Japanized, casual and transgender Shakespeares Shoichiro Kawai; 21. Translation futures: are Shakespeareans in search of the foreign text? Ton Hoenselaars; 22. After translation Yong Li Lan; 23. 'The single and peculiar life': Hamlet's heart and the early modern subject Graham Holderness; 24. Mapping King Lear Robert B. Pierce; 25. 'Last on the stage': the place of Shakespeare in Charles Darwin's ethology Reiko Oya; 26. Sense/memory/sense-memory: reading narratives of Shakespearean rehearsals Cary M. Mazer; Shakespeare performances in England, 2008 Carol Chillington Rutter; Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January-December 2007 James Shaw; The year's contribution to Shakespeare studies: 1. Critical studies reviewed by Julie Sanders; 2. Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Emma Smith; 3. Editions and textual studies reviewed by (a) Eric Rasmussen (b) Peter Holland.
About the author
Peter Holland is McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies and Department Chair, Department of Film, Television, and Theater at the University of Notre Dame.
Summary
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production which has published the best international scholarship in English since 1948. The theme for volume 62 is 'Close Encounters with Shakespeare's Text'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at: http://www.cambridge.org/online/shakespearesurvey.
