"There has not been an age so sympathetic as the present to the study of the political content and the political context of Shakespeare's plays."

Gottfried Helnwein: page 197

Bibliographic information

Title Shakespeare and Politics
Edited by Stanley Wells
Contributors: Jonathan Bate, Michael Dobson, Inga-Stina Ewbank, R A Foakes, Andrew Gurr, John Jowett, A D Nuttall, Lena Cowen Orlin, Margreta De Grazia, Terence Hawkes
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication Date Nov 28, 2002
Subject Plays / Drama
Format Paperback
Pages 276
Dimensions 7.44 x 9.24 x 0.61 in
ISBN 0521523834

Synopsis

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.