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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 78 is 'Shakespeare's Communities'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at www.cambridge.org/core/publications/collections/cambridge-shakespeare. This searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic, and save and bookmark their results.

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Author:   Emma Smith (University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009647571

ISBN 10:   1009647571
Pages:   442
Publication Date:   30 September 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

1. (Grass)root and (tree)branch: building community in the early modern ensemble training model Peter Kirwan with Treehouse Shakespeare Ensemble; 2. Fat Ham and the problem of community Sharon O'Dair; 3. Shakespeare under the hood: teaching, researching and learning Shakespeare from within David Sterling Brown; 4. Mind's eye: audio-described Shakespeare Robert Shaughnessy; 5. 'The new map with the augmentation of the Indies': geographical knowledge communities at the inns of court and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Gavin Hollis; 6. Music and drama at the early modern inns of court: Twelfth Night and Hyde Park Simon Smith; 7. Reimagining the community: a transatlantic tale of two scholars Rui Carvalho Homem; 8. 'To be or not to be in Ukraine': ruining Shakespeare and rebuilding communities in H-Effect and The Hamlet Syndrome Christina Wald; 9. Red Kabuki actors perform Shakespeare in occupied Japan (1946–1952): Zenshinza's 'Theatre for Young People' Reiko Oya; 10. 'Unrespective Boys': the formation and betrayal of child peer communities in Richard III Benjamin Reed; 11. 'Here's company': fractured Englishness and conflicted communities in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V. Chloe Fairbanks; 12. 'Necessity Has No Law': justice and affective communities in 2 Henry VI Lukas Arnold; 13. The BBC's television adaptations of Henry VI and Britain's national identity crises Benjamin Broadribb; 14. A lion, an ass, a dog, and a wall: A Midsummer Night's Dream's ecological theatricality' Gillian Woods; 15. Hitchcock's Hamlet Misha Teramura; 16. German hermeneutics of racecraft in Thomas Ostermeier's 'Othello' (2010) Nora Galland; 17. 'Bloody creditor[s]' and the blood-money metaphor in The Merchant of Venice Harvey Wiltshire; 18. 'Now let me alone to end the tragedy': Othello, comedy and candlelight in John Fletcher's Women Pleased Domenico Lovascio 19. Power, horology, and imperial doubt: reimagining time in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Courtney Naum Scuro; 20. 'By the Book': source study and the plot of Romeo and Juliet Patrick Durdel; 21. War, hunger, and gluttony in Shakespeare's English histories: Sir John Oldcastle and Jack Cade Joan Fitzpatrick; 22. Some deeper thing: visualising complexity in 'Hamlet' through the Pyrrhus speech Rocco Coronato; 23. Lucrece and Leonard Becket, 1614‒1633 Charles Cathcart; 24. Thomas Middleton on BBC radio Michael P. Jensen; 25. John Gielgud on air – 65 years of performing Shakespeare on radio Andrea Smith; 26. 'Didst Thou Not Hear a Noise?': Shakespeare with headphones Sheila T. Cavanagh; 27. 'Strike Their Sounds Together': radio and television in the teaching of Shakespeare in twentieth-century America Joseph P. Haughey; 28. 'Say what thou seest yond!': music, spectacle and the actor's voice in audio Productions of The Tempest Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan; 29. Shakespeare Performances in England: outside London, 2024 Eleanor Rycroft; 30. Shakespeare Performances in England: London, 2024 Hester Lees-Jeffries; 31. Professional Shakespeare Productions in the UK, January-December 2023 James Shaw; The Year's Contribution to Shakespeare Studies: 1. Critical Studies reviewed by Ezra Horbury; 2. Editions and Textual Studies reviewed by Emma Depledge; 3. SHAKESPEARE in PERFORMANCE reviewed by Miranda Fay Thomas; Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 78.

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Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, Oxford. Her work focuses on the reception of Shakespeare in print, performance and criticism, and she has written for students, enthusiasts, theatregoers and scholars. She has co-edited The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy (Cambridge, 2010), Marlowe in Context (Cambridge, 2013) and The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio (Cambridge, 2016). For undergraduate readers, she wrote The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2007) and The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide (Cambridge, 2012). Her work on the First Folio includes The Making of the First Folio (Bodleian Library, 2016) and Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book (Oxford, 2016). This Is Shakespeare (Penguin, 2019) and Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers (Penguin, 2022) address a wide readership. She is an associate scholar with the Royal Shakespeare Company and a regular speaker in schools, literary festivals, theatres, libraries and book groups, as well as in universities. She has contributed to radio and TV programmes and written extensively for newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Telegraph, the Observer and the Guardian.

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