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Shakespeare survey. Vol. 29, Shakespeare's last plays

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.
Print Book, English, 2002
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
207 pages
9780521523660, 9780521523950, 0521523664, 0521523958
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List of plates; 1. Shakespeare's romances since 1958: a retrospect F. David Hoeniger; 2. Puzzle and artifice: the riddle as metapoetry in Pericles Phyllis Gorfain; 3. Pericles in a book-list of 1619 from the English Jesuit Mission and some of the play's special problems Willem Schrickx; 4. George Wilkins and the young heir Roger Prior; 5. Theatrical virtuosity and poetic complexity in Cymbeline Roger Warren; 6. Noble virtue in Cymbeline James Edward Siemon; 7. Directing the romances Nick Shrimpton and Richard Proudfoot; 8. Shakespeare and the ideas of his time J. W. Lever; 9. The letter of the law in The Merchant of Venice E. F. J. Tucker; 10. Shakespeare's use of the Timon comedy James C. Bulman, Jr; 11. Re-enter the stage direction: 12. Shakespeare and some contemporaries E. A. J. Honigmann; 13. The staircases of the frame: new light on the structure of the Globe Neil Carson; 14. Shakespeare in Max Beerbohm's theatre criticism Stanley Wells; 15. A Danish actress and her conception of the part of Lady Macbeth Henning Krabbe; 16. Towards a poor Shakespeare: the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford in 1975 Peter Thomson; 17. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study D. J. Palmer, N. W. Bawcutt and Richard Proudfoot; Index.
Includes index