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Shakespeare Survey 73

Shakespeare Survey 73

Shakespeare Survey 73

Shakespeare and the City
Emma Smith, University of Oxford
November 2020
Hardback
9781108830539
$136.00
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    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 theme for Volume 73 is 'Shakespeare and the City'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/shakespeare-survey This fully searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic and save and bookmark their results.

    • The 73rd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production
    • The lively theme of Shakespeare and the City occupies most of the articles in this issue
    • A substantial review section covers books published on Shakespeare during 2019 and productions throughout the UK

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    Table of Contents

    • 1. Continental Shakespeare Karen Newman
    • 2. The stranger at the door: belonging in Shakespeare's Ephesus Nandini Das
    • 3. City origins, lost identities and print errors in The Comedy of Errors Alice Leonard
    • 4. The circulation of youthful energy on the early modern London stage: migration, intertheatricality, and 'growing to common players' Harry R. McCarthy
    • 5. In conversation with Shakespeare in Jacobean London: social insanity and its taming schools in 1 and 2 Honest Whore Chi-Fang Sophia Li
    • 6. Hearing voices: signal vs urban noise in Coriolanus and Augustine's Confessions Lars Engle
    • 7. Caesar and Lear in Hong Kong: appropriating Shakespeare to express the inexpressible Miriam Lau Leung Che
    • 8. Before we sleep: Macbeth and the curtain lecture Neil Rhodes
    • 9. 'The story shall be changed': antique fables and agency in A Midsummer Night's Dream Charlotte Scott
    • 10. A lawful magic: new worlds of precedent in Mabo and The Winter's Tale Nicholas Luke
    • 11. 'Cabined, cribbed, confined': advice to actors and the priorities of Shakespearean scholarship' Michael Cordner
    • 12. 'What country, friends, is this?': Tim Supple's Twelfth Night revisited Peter J. Smith
    • 13. Through a glass darkly: Sophie Okonedo's Margaret as racial other in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses Jennie M. Votava
    • 14. 'Who's there?': Britain's twenty-first century obsession with celebrity Hamlet (2008-2018) Gemma Kate Allred
    • 15. Shakespearean performance in England 2019 Stephen Purcell and Paul Prescott
    • 16. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles 2018 James Shaw
    • 17. Critical studies Charlotte Scott
    • 18. Shakespeare in performance Russell Jackson
    • 19. Editions and textual studies Peter Kirwan.
      Contributors
    • Karen Newman, Nandini Das, Alice Leonard, Harry R. McCarthy, Chi-Fang Sophia Li, Lars Engle, Miriam Lau Leung Che, Neil Rhodes, Charlotte Scott, Nicholas Luke, Michael Cordner, Peter J. Smith, Jennie M. Votava, Gemma Kate Allred, Stephen Purcell, Paul Prescott, James Shaw, Russell Jackson, Peter Kirwan

    • Editor
    • Emma Smith , University of Oxford

      Emma Smith is Director of English Studies at Hertford College, Oxford. She has a broad range of Shakespearean expertise, in terms of performance, criticism and the preparation of textual editions, and has written for students, theatregoers and scholars. Her list of publications includes a performance edition of King Henry V (Cambridge, 2002). She co-edited The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy (Cambridge, 2010). For undergraduate readers she wrote The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2007) and The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide (Cambridge, 2012). More recently she has turned her attention to the cultural history of the First Folio, and published a book with the Bodleian Library to accompany the 2016 touring exhibition; in the same year she published The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio (Cambridge, 2016).