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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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    The Twelve Songs of Christmas

    Britain's Love Affair with the Xmas No. 1

    by Bob Stanley ...
    Narrated by Orlando Wells ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 51 min

    A nostalgic journey through Britain's obsession with the Christmas number one, told through twelve iconic chart-toppersTwelve songs, seventy-five years and a nation's chart obsessionEvery December, Britain waits for the one chart result that still matters: the Christmas number one. In an age when the singles chart has lost much of its cultural power, the festive top spot remains fiercely contested ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    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

  • Renaissance Shakespeare/Shakespeare Renaissances

    Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress

    by Stanley Wells, Joel Rodgers, Randall Martin, Robert Darcy, Atsuhiko Hirota, Darryl Chalk, Supriya Chaudhuri, Kimberly R. West, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Margaret Shewring, Richard Fotheringham, Ros King, James J. Marino, Brian Walsh, Eleanor Collins, M. A. Katritzky, Martin Hilský, Ann Jennalie Cook, Vlasta Gallerová, Karel Kríž, Robert Sturua, Jean-Christophe Mayer, Galz Engler, Madalina Nicolaescu, Kaori Kobayashi, Patrick Lonergan, Zeno Ackermann, Tina Krontiris, Emily Oliver, Shaul Bassi, Barry Freeman, Carla della Gatta, Cristiane Busato Smith, Sharon O'Dair, Emma Depledge, Anna Cetera, Courtney Lehmann, Poonam Trivedi, Bi-Qi Beatrice Lei, Graham Holderness, Jill L. Levenson, Hersh Zeifman ...
    Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Shakespeare Circle

    An Alternative Biography

    Edited by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells ...
    This original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators and patrons both in their own right and in relation to his life. Well-known figures such as Richard Burbage, Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton are freshly considered; little-known but relevant lives are brought to the fore, and revisionist views are ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Shakespeare Beyond Doubt

    Evidence, Argument, Controversy

    Edited by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells ...
    Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? The authorship question has been much treated in works of fiction, film and television, provoking interest all over the world. Sceptics have proposed many candidates as the author of Shakespeare's works, including Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe and Edward De Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford. But why and how did the authorship question arise and what does ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Shakespeare: A Playgoer's & Reader's Guide

    Edited by Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells ...
    Shakespeare: A Playgoer's & Reader's Guide is your essential companion to all Shakespeare's extant works (as well as those known to be lost). Two of our most eminent Shakespeare scholars guide us through his sonnets, his poems, and his plays, providing the reader with detailed scene-by-scene plot synopses, cast lists, notes on the texts and sources, discussions of artistic features, and accounts ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells, Will Sharpe, Erin Sullivan ...
    The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the authoritative A-Z entries, it includes nearly 100 illustrations, a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and special feature entries on each of Shakespeare's works. Tying in with the 400th ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The History of King Lear: The Oxford Shakespeare

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, based on the Quarto text of 1608 - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions and much else - detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances and changing critical attitudes to ... Read more

    $6.99 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