“stanley wells”

One of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespearian scholars considers the extent to which sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing relies on interpretation by actors, directors and critics. Tracing interpretations of Shakespearian "bawdy" and "innuendo" from the eighteenth-century to the prese... More

Since its original publication in 1986, the Oxford edition of the Complete Works has established itself as the most thorough, scholarly, yet adventurous re-thinking of Shakespeare's text eever undertaken. Based on a fresh examination of the nature and authority of the early documents, it offers a ne... More

From the dean of Shakespeare studies comes a lively, entertaining work of biography that firmly locates Shakespeare within the hectic, exilarating world in which he lived and worked. Theatre in Shakespeare's day was a growth industry. Everyone knew everyone else, and they all sought to learn, borrow... More

In this entertaining introduction to Shakespeare and his work-- an invaluable companion for readers and theater-goers--- Stanley Wells explores in particular the plays, with their wide range of meanings, and analyzes in accessible terms their literary and dramatic craftsmanship.... More

Shakespeare in the Theatre offers a rich, varied, and wonderfully evocative collection of eyewitness accounts of Shakespearian performances over the centuries. Theatre generates an excitement that stimulates fine prose: here are Hazlitt's famous accounts of Edmund Kean as Richard III and Hamlet, Ber... More