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COFFEE WITH SHAKESPEARE by WELLS STANLEY
Category: Fiction | Series: Coffee With... Ser.
Shakespeare: the most famous writer who ever lived; a man whose career arouses heated controversy. Stanley Wells, described as the world’s leading Shakespeare scholar, chats with the Bard about life, love, writing, and acting, as we follow his steps from a small town in Warwickshire to center stage in E ...Show more
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells
Category: Film & Tv
Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first-the answer is No-and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times ...Show more
Henry VI Part Two by Stanley W. Wells
Category: Classic Fiction
This is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part Two is arguably the best introduction to the playwright's genius as a writer of history plays. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Norman Saunders with an introduction ...Show more
Q&A Shakespeare Off the Record by Stanley W. Wells
Category: Biography Memoir
Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural beings such as fairies and witches - and much else besid ...Show more
SHAKESPEARES TRAGEDIES A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION by WELLS STANLEY
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Tragedy, including grief, pain and suffering, is a common theme in Shakespeare's plays, often leading to the death of at least one character, if not several. Yet such themes can also be found in Shakespearian plays which are classed as comedies, or histories. What is it which makes a Shakespearian trage ...Show more
Shakespeare by Stanley Wells
Category: Food Cooking Wine
An entertaining, authoritative and informative account of Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Co. by Stanley Wells (Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon)
Category: Culture
The Elizabethan and Jacobean periods are often known as the age of Shakespeare. One of the greatest of all English figures, Shakespeare is a dominant force in our imaginations, a yardstick for great poetry and plays, and a quintessential Englishman. Yet, to consider him as an icon is to forget that he w ...Show more
Shakespeare and Co : Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story by Stanley W. Wells
Category: Culture
"Enjoyable, lively... such a pleasure to read... renders the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries more than fringe entertainment' - "Independent". Shakespeare is one of the greatest of all English figures, considered a genius for all time. Yet as this enthralling book shows, he was at heart a man of th ...Show more
The History of King Lear by Stanley (EDT) William; Wells Shakespeare
Category: Fiction | Series: The Oxford Shakespeare
The Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare (revised) by Stanley Wells; James Shaw
Category: Reference | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference Ser.
This concise, illustrated dictionary of Shakespeariana, compiled by one of the best-known authorities on his works, contains alphabetically arranged entries guiding the reader to a wealth of information on all aspects of Shakespeare in his own time and on his impact and influence on later ages.Stanley W ...Show more
The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works (2nd ed.) by William Shakespeare (ed. Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett & William Montgomery)
Category: Film & Tv
A compact edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. It combines impeccable scholarship with beautifully written editorial material and a user-friendly layout of the text. Also included is a foreword, list of contents, general introduction, essay on language, contemporary allusions to Shakesp ...Show more