Shakespeare Survey: Volume 54, Shakespeare and Religions: (Series Number 54 Shakespeare Survey)

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 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

Table of Contents:
Shakespeare and the Protestant mind David Daniell; Divine [ ]sences Gary Taylor; 'An alien people clutching their gods'?: Shakespeare's ancient religions Robert S. Miola; 'He drew the Liturgy, and framed the rites'; The changing role of religious disposition in Shakespeare's reception Péter Dávidházi; Jonson, Shakespeare, and the religion of players Jeffrey Knapp; The Bard and Ireland: Shakespeare's Protestantism as politics in disguise Paul Franssen; 'Every good gift from above' Archbishop Trench's tercentenary sermon Richard Foulkes; Anthony Munday and The Merchant of Venice Donna B. Hamilton; Perfect answers: religious inquisition, Falstaffian Wit Tom McAlindon; When suicide becomes an act of honour: Julius Caesar and Hamlet in late nineteenth-century Japan Tetsuo Kishi; Religion in Arden Peter Milward; A wedding and four funerals: conjunction and commemoration in Hamlet Richard McCoy; Between religion and ideology: some Russian Hamlets of the twentieth-century Boika Sokolova; Of shadows and stones: revering and translating 'the word' Shakespeare in Mexico Alfredo Michel Modenessi; Ministers, Magistrates and the Production of 'Order' in Measure for Measure Peter Lake; The Hebrew who turned Christian: the first translator of Shakespeare into the Holy Tongue Hanna Scolnicov; Shakespeare and English performance style: the European context Janette Dillon; All at Sea: water, syntax, and character dissolution in Shakespeare William Poole; King John, König Johann: War and Peace Laurence Lerner; The Tempest's forgotten exile Jane Kingsley-Smith; The Old Lady, or All is Not True Thomas Merriam; Shakespeare performances in England 2000 Michael Dobson; Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January-December 1999 Niky Rathbone; The year's contribution's to Shakespeare studies: 1. Critical studies reviewed by Edward Pechter; 2. Shakespeare's life, times, and stage reviewed by Leslie Thomson; 3. Editions and textual studies reviewed by Eric Rasmussen; Books received; Index.

Review :
"...one cannot ignore Shakespeare Survey 54. Peter Holland's millennial volume indicates a prominent new direction in Shakespeare criticism, the exploration of early modern religions as cultural phenomena and as spiritual experience. This volume will play an important role in the shifting shapes that discussion will take in the future." Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England