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  • William Shakespeare

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which Shakespeare drew. Examining the theatres and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • What Was Shakespeare Really Like?

    by Stanley Wells ...
    Sir Stanley Wells is one of the world's greatest authorities on William Shakespeare. Here he brings a lifetime of learning and reflection to bear on some of the most tantalising questions about the poet and dramatist that there are. How did he think, feel, and work? What were his relationships like? What did he believe about death? What made him laugh? This freshly thought and immensely engaging ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • William Shakespeare

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which Shakespeare drew. Examining the theatres and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Tragedies

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    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 tragedy, and what dramatic themes and conventions did the bard draw upon when writing them? In this ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Shakespeare, Sex, and Love

    by Stanley Wells ...
    How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behaviour in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. He demonstrates what we know or can deduce of the sex lives of ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Shakespeare and Co.

    Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story

    by Stanley Wells ...
    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, or steal from one another. Stanley Wells explores the theatre world from behind the scenes, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Great Shakespeare Actors

    Burbage to Branagh

    by Stanley Wells ...
    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 to our own. They include both English and American performers such as David Garrick, Sarah ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Thomas Nashe (Routledge Revivals)

    Selected Works

    by Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book, first published in 1964, is devoted to Thomas Nashe. Shakespeare’s plays have many apparent echoes of his matter and style; he was one of the most adventurous and successful of those who tried to explore the possibilities of the language and to embellish it was an eloquence both learned and popular. Moreover, he is a conscientious and delighted portrayer of the London of his time; he ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Literature and Drama

    with special reference to Shakespeare and his contemporaries

    by Stanley Wells ...
    First published in 1970. This book examines the areas of plays that are dependent upon the art of the theatre and the fluidity of interpretation to which this gives rise. It discusses the printing of plays and the limited attempts that have have been made to convey theatrical experience, taking as a particular example a masque by Ben Jonson. Finally, some of the problems created by the instability ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear : The 1608 Quarto

    by William Shakespeare; Stanley Wells ...
    King Lear, widely considered Shakespeare's most deeply moving, passionately expressed, and intellectually ambitious play, has almost always been edited from the revised version printed in the First Folio of 1623, with additions from the quarto of 1608. Acting on recent discoveries, this volume presents the first full, scholarly edition to be based firmly on the quarto, now recognized as the base ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Shakespeare on Page and Stage

    Selected Essays

    by Prof Stanley Wells ...
    This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking Oxford Shakespeare, and over his lifetime he has made significant contributions to debates over ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Audiobook

    All the Sonnets of Shakespeare

    by William Shakespeare, Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells ...
    Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, Lolita Chakrabarti ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 36 min

    How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least thirty years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays, as prologues, as epilogues, and as part of their poetic texture. This ground-breaking book assembles all of ... Read more

    $14.36 USD