‘Oxford University Press offer a mix of engagingly written introductions to a variety of Topics intended largely for undergraduates. Each author has clearly been reading and listening to the most recent scholarship, but they wear their learning lightly.’ -Ruth Morse, Times Literary SupplementOxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare.
Shakespeare in the Theatre offers a rich, varied, and wonderfully evocative collection of reviews of Shakespeare in performance from early times to the present. Including the work of many major writers (from Hazlitt and Keats to Shaw, Beerbohm, and Virginia Woolf), and ranging right across the Shakespearian canon, it represents a survey of landmark productions and performances from Garrick to Peter Brook, Betterton to McKellen, Siddons to Dench. The reviews are helpfully introduced and annotated by the editor, Stanley Wells.