Shakespeare Survey (Paperback)

List of illustrations; 1. The reception of Hamlet R. A. Foakes; 2. 'Hamlet, revenge!': the uses and abuses of historical criticism Paul N. Siegel; 3. Revision by excision: rewriting Gertrude Ellen J. O'Brien; 4. Gazing at Hamlet, or the Danish cabaret Lawrence Danson; 5. 'He's going to his mother's closet': Hamlet and Gertrude on screen Murray Biggs; 6. Shakespeare rewound Graham Holderness; 7. Freud's Hamlet Kenneth Muir; 8. 'Pray you, undo this button': implications of 'Un-' in King Lear Leslie Thomson; 9. Marx and Shakespeare R. S. White; 10. Peter Street, 1553?1609: builder of playhouses Mary Edmond; 11. Shakespeare performances in England, 1990?1 Peter Holland; 12. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January?December 1990 Niky Rathbone; 13. The year's contributions to Shakespeare studies David Lindley, Martin Wiggins and H. R. Woudhuysen; Books received; Index.