Shakespeare survey : an annual survey of Shakespearian study and production. 25, [Shakespeare's problem plays] / edited by Kenneth Muir. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muir, Kenneth, editor.

Series:

Shakespeare survey (Cambridge, England) ; 25.

Shakespeare survey ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Tragicomedies.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Tragicomedy--History and criticism.

Tragicomedy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 205 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Shakespeare's problem plays

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1972.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

aThe problem plays, 1920-1970: a retrospect / Michael Jamieson

'Sons and daughters of the game': an essay on Shakespeare's 'Troilus and Cressida' / R.A. Yoder

The options of the audience: theory and practice in Peter Brook's 'Measure for measure' / Herbert S. Weil, Jr.

Man's need and God's plan in 'Measure for measure' and Mark iv / Sarah C. Velz

The design of 'All's well that ends well' / R.L. Smallwood

Directing problem plays: John Barton talks to Gareth Lloyd Evans

The Queen Mab speech in 'Romeo and Juliet' / Sidney Thomas

'Time's deformed hand': sequence, consequence, and inconsequence in 'The comedy of errors' / Gāmini Salgādo

Faith and fashion in 'Much ado about nothing' / David Ormerod

'The merry wives of Windsor' as a hallowe'en play / Jeanne Addison Roberts

'The tempest at the turn of the century: cross-currents in production / Mary M. Nilan

Variations within a source: from Isaiah xxix 'The tempest' / Ann Pasternak Slater

The life of George Wilkins / Roger Prior

A neurotic Portia / Murray Biggs

Of an age and for all time: Shakespeare at Stratford / Richard David.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Jun 2016).

ISBN:

1-139-05305-1