FOR ALL SHAKESPEARIANS
SHAKESPEARE SURVEY 2, edited by Allare dyce Nicoll; Cambridge University Presa, 1949. English price, 12/6. HIS second issue of the new "annual survey of Shakespearian study and production" (jointly sponsored by the University of Birmingham, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) more than confirms the hopes raised by last year’s Survey 1 and establishes the series as an indispensable aid to all teachers and genuine students of Shakespeare. This volume is uniform in style with the first issue, is handsomely illus. trated and well printed and indexedy
and, for a specialist publication in durable binding, is most reasonably priced. With the postwar revival of interest. in the staging of Shakespeare it does not seem too much to ask that a set of these annual surveys should be made available in every major library in New Zealand. So far as this volume is concerned, popular. attention will probably be focussed on Miss St. Clare Byrne’s re‘view of "Fifty Years of Shakespearian Production," which traces the revolution in English theatrical styles from the antiquarian realism of Charles Kean and Irving,. through the experiments of : William Poel and Granville-Barker and the "Shakespeare in Modern Dress" movement, to the fine norm of the Old Vic and the latest vagaries of "pro‘ducer’s Shakespeare" today. But the scholar will be grateful for Professor a R. C. Bald’s summing-up of the problem of Shakespeare’s hand in Sir Thomas More, for M. Henri Fluchére's timely and stimulating account of ShakeSpeare’s impact and influence in France during. this century, and for shorter studies by such well-known _ authorities ,as J. Dover. Wilson, Leslie Hotson, and : Professor Hardin Craig. The international character of the survey is maintained by an essay on the imagery of Othello, Macbeth and Hamlet by Professor Morozoy of Moscow (who has written so ably elsewhere on the staging of Shakespeare in Soviet Russia) and there are the standard val‘uable features of detailed reviews of "The Year’s Contributions to Shake-
_spearian Study."
J.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 543, 18 November 1949, Page 16
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