Shakespeare Survey 70: Volume 70

Peter Holland is McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies and Department Chair of the Department of Film, Television and Theater at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

• 1. 'Think when we talk of horses …' Gregory Doran; 2. Adrian Lester in dialogue with Ayanna Thompson; 3. Shakespeare and the novel: a conversation Howard Jacobson and Adrian Poole; 4. 'Music still': understanding and reconstructing Shakespeare's use of musical underscore Claire van Kampen; Part I. Shakespeare: Biography and Celebration: 5. Remembering and forgetting in 1916: Israel Gollancz, the Shakespeare tercentenary and the National Theatre Gordon McMullan; 6. Four centuries of centenaries: Stratford-upon-Avon Michael Dobson; 7. Writing and re-writing Shakespeare's life: a roundtable discussion with Margreta de Grazia, Katherine Scheil, James Shapiro, and Stanley Wells Paul Edmondson; 8. The merchant in Venice: re-creating Shakespeare in the Ghetto Shaul Bassi; 9. Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in and beyond the Ghetto Carol Chillington Rutter; Part II. Shakespeare and Textual Studies: 10. What the quills can tell: the case of John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's Love's Cure José A. Pérez Díez; 11. What if Greg and Werstine had examined early Modern Spanish Dramatic Manuscripts Jesús Tronch; 12. Exit manuscripts: the archive of theatre and the archive of print John Jowett; 13. 'Sblood! Hamlet's oaths and the editing of Shakespeare's plays Lucy Munro; 14. Antihonorificabilitudinitatibus: Love's Labour's Lost and unteachable words Adam Zucker; 15. Shakespeare and who? Aeschylus, Edward III, and Thomas Kyd Gary Taylor, John V. Nance and Keegan Cooper; 16. Authorial attribution and Shakespearean variety: genre, form and chronology Hugh Craig; Part lll. Shakespeare and Early Modern Contexts: 17. 'My mother's maids, when they did sew and spin': staging sewing, telling tales Hester Lees-Jeffries; 18. Why prospero drowned his books, and other Catholic folklore Helen Cooper; 19. Why did the English stage take boys for actresses? Pamela Allen Brown; 20. Acting amiss: towards a history of actorly craft and playhouse judgement Simon Smith 21. 'What imports this song?': spontaneous singers and spaces of meaning in Shakespeare Elisabeth Lutteman; 22. Shakespeare's depriving particles Ruth Morse; 23. Shakespeare's comedy of upright status: standing bears and fallen humans Laurie Shannon; 24. 'Worth the name of a Christian'?: the parabolic economy of Two Gentlemen of Verona Margaret Tudeau-Clayton; 25. 'Titus, unkind': Shakespeare's revision of Vergil's Aeneas in Titus Andronicus Megan Allen; 26. 'Cut him out in little stars': Juliet's cute classicism Julia Reinhard Lupton; 27. The will of Caesar: choice-making, the death of the Roman Republic, and the development of Shakespearean character Katharine Eisaman Maus; 28. 'As for that light hobby-horse, my sister': Shakespearean influences and popular discourses in Blurt, Master Constable Natália Pikli; 29. Messianic ugliness in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale Naomi Baker; 30. Shakespeare performances in England, 2016 Stephen Purcell; 31. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January-December 2015 James Shaw; Part IV. The Year's Contribution to Shakespeare Studies: 1. Critical studies reviewed by Charlotte Scott; 2. The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare reviewed by Russell Jackson; 3. Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Russell Jackson; 4. Editions and textual studies reviewed by Peter Kirwan; Abstracts.