HAKESPEARE UARTERLY. Autumn Published by The Folger Shakespeare Library VOLUME 29, NUMBER 4

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1 HAKESPEARE UARTERLY Autumn 1978 VOLUME 29, NUMBER 4 Published by The

2 A major event in publishing history T H E ANNOTATED Shakespeare $ 6 0 *, but, almost certainly, future printings will have to be sold at a considerably higher price. To be sure of getting 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 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 T Chrkson N. Potter, Inc. VOL. I: THE COMEDIES VOL. II: THE HISTORIES, SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS VOL. Ill: THE TRAGEDIE! AND ROMANCES T HE ANNOTATED SHAKESPEARE 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 h o m e library, T H E ANNOTATED SHAKESPEARE is a handsome, 3-volume slipcased 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. he price for the first edition (over 2,400 pages, 8 1 //' x 11", beautifully clothbound and slipcased), is

3 / SHAKESPEAftEl^iRTERLY m f "* Published by the Gerald Eades Bentley Princeton University James P. Elder Levi Fox Shakespeare Birthplace Trust EXECUTIVE BOARD O. B. Hardison. Jr. Philip A. Knachel S. Schoenbaum University of Maryland i-> 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 Cyrus Hoy University of Rochester i Karin B. Stanford ^Editorial Assistant jsusan Z. Nascimento tedltorial Consultant EDITOR John F. Andrews EDITORIAL BOARD BIBLIOGRAPHER Harrison T. Meserole Pennsylvania State University STAFF Dorothy H. Wickenden Editorial and Production Manager 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 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 since July 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 All correspondence and business communications should be addressed to Shakespeare Quarterly,, 201 East Capitol Street, Washington, D.C 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 selfaddressed 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 THE FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY 1978

4 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 ftjwcs II A Kfidt IWHUVI* i 11 i Cambridge University Press 32 East 57th Street New York, N.Y

5 , ;-* : *llfppp3t-» : ' - Coming SOUTH ATLANTIC 50th Anniversary Issue November 1978 Honoring Frank M. Duffey % BULLETIN 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

6 (KENTUCKY THE MUSIC OF THE 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 The Widening Circlo The Story of the 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

7 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 ( )" "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 U.S.A.