Shakespeare Survey: Volume 59, Editing Shakespeare (Shakespeare Survey, Series Number 59)

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 10/12/2006
EAN 9780521868389, ISBN10: 0521868386

Hardcover, 406 pages, 25.3 x 19.7 x 2.8 cm
Language: English

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 that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. 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. Most volumes of Survey have long been out of print. Back numbers are gradually being reissued in paperback. The theme for Shakespeare Survey 59 is 'Editing Shakespeare'.

Part I
1. Editing Shakespeare's plays in the twentieth century John Jowett
2. Crisis in editing? Edward Pechter
3. On being a general editor Stanley Wells
4. Altering the letter of Twelfth Night
'Some are born great' and the missing signature Patricia Parker
5. 'A thousand Shylocks'
Orson Welles and The Merchant of Venice Tom Rooney
6. The date and authorship of hand D's contribution to Sir Thomas More
evidence from 'Literature Online' MacDonald P. Jackson
7. Ferdinand's wife and Prospero's wise Ron Tumelson
8. Editing Stefano's book Andrew Gurr
9. Manuscript, print, and the authentic Shakespeare
the Ireland forgeries again Tom Lockwood
10. The author, the editor and the translator
William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers and Sándor Petofi or the nature of a Romantic edition Júlia Paraizs
11. Women edit Shakespeare Jeanne Addison Roberts
12. The Shakespeare edition in industrial capitalism Cary DiPietro
13. Print and electronic editions inspired by the New Variorum Hamlet Project Bernice Kliman
14. The evolution of online editing
where will it end? Christie Carson
15. The director as Shakespeare editor Alan C. Dessen
16. The editor as translator Balz Engler
17. Performance editions, editing and editors Elizabeth Schafer
18. Editing collaborative drama Suzanne Gossett
19. Will in the Universe
Shakespeare's sonnets, Plato's Symposium, alchemy and Renaissance Neoplatonism Ronald Gray
20. Giants and enemies of God
the relationship between Caliban and Prospero from the perspective of insular literary tradition Lynn Forest-Hill
21. Shakespeare's ages Ruth Morse
22. Who wrote William Basse's 'Elegy on Shakespeare'?
rediscovering a poem lost from the Donne canon Brandon S. Centerwall
23. 'Sometime a paradox'
Shakespeare, Diderot, and the problem of character Jonathan Holmes
24. Shakespeare performances in England, 2005 Michael Dobson
25. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January–December 2004 James Shaw
Part II. The Year's Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
1. Critical studies reviewed by Michael Taylor
2. Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Emma Smith
3. Editions and textual studies reviewed by Eric Rasmussen.