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Shakespeare Survey 73
Shakespeare and the City

Part of Shakespeare Survey

Editor: Emma Smith, University of Oxford

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

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Date Published: September 2020
availability: In stock
format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108830539

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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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- Date Published: September 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108830539
- length: 312 pages
- dimensions: 253 x 195 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.78kg
- availability: In stock
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.
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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).
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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