THE ANNOTATED - Oxford Academic

HAKESPEARE UARTERLY

Autumn 1978 VOLUME 29, NUMBER 4

Published by The Folger Shakespeare Library

Dow

nloaded from https://academ

ic.oup.com/sq/issue/29/4 by guest on 05 July 2022

A major event in publishing history

T H E ANNOTATED

Shakespeare T HE ANNOTATED™ SHAKE

SPEARE contains the complete works of Shakespeare, with many important new features including a biography of Shakespeare and full-scale introductions to each volume and play by Dr. A. L. Rowse, one of the world's foremost Elizabethan scholars. Accompanying the detailed notes, descriptions, and definitions of obscure words are the annotations and illuminations throughout—plus 4,200 photographs, paintings, portraits, set designs, costume designs, and other illustrations. A n all-time treasure and permanent

addition to any home library, T H E A N N O T A T E D ™ S H A K E SPEARE is a handsome, 3-volume slip-cased set in the format of the famous Annotated™ series, of which more than a million copies have been sold. The great merit of the annotations is that they help the reader, the actor, the producer, and the student to understand and appreciate better the immortal plays of Shakespeare.

T he price for the first edition (over 2,400 pages, 81//' x 11", beauti

fully clothbound and slipcased), is

$60*, but, almost certainly, future printings will have to be sold at a considerably higher price. To be sure of get t ing your copy or copies (for Christmas and other gifts), we suggest that you place your order at once with your bookstore or directly from Crown Publishers, One Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016. Please add $2.75 postage and handling charge. (N.Y. and N.J. residents, please add sales tax.)

* Special signed and numbered, leather-bound limited edition: $250

Chrkson N. Potter, Inc.

VOL. I: THE COMEDIES VOL. II: THE HISTORIES,

SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS

VOL. Ill: THE TRAGEDIE! AND ROMANCES

h' SHAKESPEARE

FOR 1977 General Shake

Festschrift Bibliograph Biography Editions a Reference Textual Language Productions

General Bibliograph Reference Actors Ballet, Film, Music Readings Stage and Stage Theatrical

Conferences General

General Criticism Influences Literary Shakesp Shakesp Shakespeare Shakesp Shakesp Sources Symbolism

Studies of Part Play Groups Individual

Indexes . . . .

Cover illustration of Hamlet, pul a set of 121

Dow



/

SHAKESPEAftEl^iRTERLYm f

""* Published by the Folger Shakespeare Library

i->

Gerald Eades Bentley Princeton University

James P. Elder Folger Shakespeare Library

Levi Fox Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Bernard Beckerman Columbia University

David M. Bergeron University of Kansas

David Bevington University of Chicago

Maurice Charney Rutgers University

Alan C. Dessen University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill

Roland M. Frye University of Pennsylvania

EXECUTIVE BOARD

EDITOR

John F. Andrews

Folger Shakespeare Library

EDITORIAL BOARD

Cyrus Hoy University of Rochester

O. B. Hardison. Jr. Folger Shakespeare Library

Philip A. Knachel Folger Shakespeare Library

S. Schoenbaum University of Maryland

Harry Levin Harvard University

Jeanne Addison Roberts American University

Marvin Rosenberg University of California, Berkeley

Charles H. Shattuck University of Illinois

Susan Snyder Swarthmore College

Homer Swander University of California, Santa Barbara

John W. Velz University of Texas, Austin

i

BIBLIOGRAPHER

Harrison T. Meserole

Pennsylvania State University

STAFF

Dorothy H. Wickenden Editorial and Production Manager Karin B. Stanford

^Editorial Assistant

jSusan Z. Nascimento tEdltorial Consultant

JudyM.Edelhoff Subscription Clerk

Wilfred M.McClay Promotion Consultant

t Founded by The Shakespeare Association of America in 1950, Shakespeare Quarterly has been •published by The Folger Shakespeare Library since July 1972. The Folger is an independent sresearch library administered by the Trustees of Amherst College; O. B. Hardison, Jr. is Director. ^ Shakespeare Quarterly is printed by William Byrd Press (2901 Byrdhill Road, Richmond, -'Virginia 23228), and is entered as second-class matter at the Washington, D.C. Post Office and at additional mailing offices. It is published in Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn of each year.

Articles published in Shakespeare Quarterly are indexed in The Humanities Index and in the MLA International Bibliography; they are also abstracted and indexed in the World Shakespeare Bibliography included each Autumn in Shakespeare Quarterly. ISSN 0037-3222.

All correspondence and business communications should be addressed to Shakespeare Quarterly, Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol Street, Washington, D.C. 20003. Articles submitted for publication, books to be reviewed, and other editorial correspondence should be addressed to the Editor, with any material the sender wishes to receive back accompanied by a self-addressed envelope and return postage.

To subscribe, send check or money order payable to Shakespeare Quarterly to the above address. Subscription rates are as follows:

ONE YEAR TWO YEARS THREE YEARS

U.S.A. $12.50 $24.00 $35.00 Outside the U.S.A. $15.00 $28.00 $41.00

Single issues of the current volume may be ordered from the Quarterly office at $3.50 per copy. A limited number of copies of earlier issues are also available, at prices varying with quantities remaining. Reprints of Shakespeare Quarterly may be ordered through AMS Press, 56 East 13th Street, New York, New York 10003.

© THE FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY 1978

Dow



CAMBRIDGE THE SHAKESPEARE REVOLUTION J. L. STYAN "The Shakespeare Revolution is written with Styan's usual ease and clarity, and continues to give evidence of his fine combination of interest in scholarship and practical theatre."—Educational Theatre Journal $13.95

SHAKESPEARE IN THE THEATRE RICHARD DAVID An illustrated, comprehensive record of those moments in actual performance that seemed to recreate or impair the dramatic effects that were Shakespeare's intent. David addresses himself to the problems which affect the translation of a classical play into living theatre. $17.95

SHAKESPEARE AND THE CLASSICAL WORLD KENNETH MUIR, Editor

Shakespeare Survey 31 $29.50

HENRY IV TO HAMLET KENNETH MUIR, Editor Shakespeare Survey 30 $24.50

MACBETH AND THE PLAYERS DENNIS BARTHOLOMEUSZ " . . . an admirable work... ."—The New York Review of Books Now in Paperback $8.95

ASPECTS OF OTHELLO ASPECTS OF MACBETH KENNETH MUIR and PHILIP EDWARDS, Editors

Discerning essays selected from the Shakespeare Survey offer the student or specialist a range of authoritative viewpoints on different aspects of Othello and Macbeth.

Each Volume Hardcover $15.95 Paperback $6.45

Cambridge University Press 32 East 57th Street New York, N.Y. 10022

ftjwCS I I

A i

Kfidt

I W H U V I * 11

i

Dow



, ; - * : * l l fpPP3t-» : •• '••• — -

Coming

SOUTH ATLANTIC BULLETIN

50th Anniversary Issue November 1978

Honoring Frank M. Duffey

%

Occasioned by the Golden Anniversary of the South A tlantic Modern Language Association

ESSAYS ON SHAKESPEARE by Fredson Bowers, "The Copy for Shakespeare's Julius Caesar"

Charles Frey, "Shakespeare's Imperiled and Chastening Daughters of Romance"

OTHER DISTINGUISHED ESSAYS by John Hurt Fisher, A. L. Clements, Elsa Nettels,

Dorothy Betz, James W. Earl, Mary Gies Hatch, Susan Gohlman, Daniel Reedy, and Siegfried Mews.

A NEW HISTORY OF SAMLA by Clifford P. Lyons

t Single Copies, $4.00

SAMLA Membership of $9.00 includes the SAB.

South Atlantic Modern Language Association Drawer CA/University, Alabama U.S.A. 35486

Dow



(KENTUCKY T H E MUSIC OF T H E CLOSE The Final Scenes of Shakespeare's Tragedies Walter C. Foreman, Jr. Devoting special attention to Hamlet, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra, Foreman examines the form Shakespeare's tragic heroes give to their own lives—and to the drama itself—at the approach of death. "Strong, lucid, and interesting" — Robert H. West. 240 pages $15.50

HENSLOWE'S ROSE The Stage & Staging Ernest K. Rhodes "Belongs in any collection devoted to Elizabethan theater" — Library Journal. 352 pages Illustrations $25.00

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY • LEXINGTON 40506

The Widening

Circlo The Story of the

Folger Shakespeare Library

and Its Collections

A profusely illustrated and beautifully designed guide to the Folger Library: its history; its varied collections of rare books, manuscripts, theatrical materials, and works of art; and its many scholarly and cultural activities. Ideal as a gift item.

$3.95

Betty Ann Kane TOLGERj,

Published by the FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY

Washington, D.C. 20003

Dow



t ^

•«***»-* *

TSLL Edwin T. Bowden and William J. Scheick. Editors

Texas Studies in Literature and Language announces an issue devoted to the Renaissance, particularly in England Volume 20, Number 3, Fall 1978

Essays to appear will include: "Distance and Astonishment in the Old Arcadia: A Study

of Sidney's Psychology" "Homely Matter and Multiple Plots in Peele's Old Wives

Tale" "The Satirist as Exegete: John Donne's Satyre V" "Joseph Hall and Protestant Meditation" "Rebellion against Public Prose: The Letters of Dorothy

Osborne to William Temple (1652-54)" "Travel Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth

Centuries: A Review of Recent Approaches" And others

The Junior Faculty Award presented by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA has been awarded to Louis A. Montrose's '"Sport by sport o'erthrown': Love's Labour's Lost and the Politics of Play, "TSLL, 18 (Winter 1977).

Subscription: Individuals $12/year, Institutions $25/year, Students & retired $10/year (other countries add $2.00 to subscription)

Single copy: $4.50 Journals Department, University of Texas Press, Box 7819, Austin, Texas 78712 U.S.A.

Dow



THE ANNOTATED - Oxford Academic

Documents