Shakespeare Survey, Volume 49

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Stanley Wells
Cambridge University Press, 2002 M11 28 - 364 pages
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.

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The Challenges of Romeo and Juliet
1
The Date and the Expected Venue of Romeo and Juliet
15
The Bad Quarto of Romeo and Juliet
27
The Places of Invention
45
Desire and Presence in Romeo and Juliet
57
A Bakhtinian Reading
69
Ideology and the Feud in Romeo and Juliet
87
The Legacy of Juliets Desire in Comedies of the Early 1600s
97
Consumption Custom and Law in Alls Well That Ends Well
181
Have you not read of some such thing? Sex and Sexual Stories in Othello
201
French Leave or Lear and the King of France
217
Harold Hobsons Shakespearian Theatre Criticism
225
Shakespeare Performances in England 19941995
235
Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles JanuaryDecember 1994
269
The Years Contributions to Shakespeare Studies
281
3 Editions and Textual Studies
310

Picturing Romeo and Juliet
111
NineteenthCentury Juliet
131
The Film Versions of Romeo and Juliet
153
Shakespeares Versus Zeffirellis Cultures of Violence
163
Books Received
339
Index
341
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