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Stanley Wells
Stanley Wells brings a lifetime of reflection to bear on some of the most tantalising questions about Shakespeare. How did he think, feel, and work? What were his relationships like…
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It has never been more important to sleep well. Stop sabotaging your own sleep and finally wake up energised and refreshed How to Sleep Well is a guidebook that can…
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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…
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Stanley Wells commands particular attention… .In this new book he surveys with common sense, stylish prose, and the insight that comes from a lifetime of study, all the plays and…
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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.
From the dean of Shakespeare scholars–a fascinating, lively, anecdotal work of forensic biography that firmly places Shakespeare within the hectic, exhilarating world in which he lived and wrote.
First published in 1988, Perymedes and the Blacksmith and Pandosto by Robert Greene: A Critical Edition considers two prose works by Robert Greene - Perymedes the Blacksmith and Pandosto -…
Originally published in 1986. Among the most frequently performed and high admired of Shakespeare’s plays, Twelfth Night is examined here in this collection of writings from well-known essayists and scholars.
The theme for Shakespeare Survey 51 is Shakespeare in the eighteenth century.
English Drama (Excluding Shakespeare)
Shakespeare in the Theatre offers a collection of reviews of Shakespeare in performance from early times to the present. Including the work of many major writers, and ranging across the…
A collection of reviews of Shakespearean performances from early times to the present, introduced and annotated by Wells, which represents a survey of landmark productions and performances from Garrick to…
Shows that Shakespeare was a man of the theatre, one among a community of artists in the teeming world of Renaissance London. This book also sketches a gallery of Shakespeare’s…
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews…
The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
The annual survey of Shakespeare studies is devoted to the theme of Shakespeare and language.
This year’s volume is devoted to the theme of Shakespeare and the Globe, including the original Globe, playhouse of Shakespeare’s time, the new Globe Theatre on Bankside and the notion…
Why do Shakespeare’s works continue to exert so strong an influence and have such lasting appeal? What do they have to offer modern readers and play-goers? The author seeks to…
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This five-volume collection contains 32 English and American burlesques of Shakespeare dating from the 19th century. Detailed introductions for each volume give the essential background to the topic, and new…
Joel Stewart
Stanley Wells is an ordinary boy, who happens to be quite curious. His friends are the mysterious Dr Moon and his canine companion Morcambe. Together they seem to stumble upon…
He meets the mysterious Dr Moon and his canine companion Morcambe - and encounters the terrifying effects of a Wenlock. After being thrown from a train, he realises he’s just…
Stanley Wells Kemp
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Edwin Stanley Welles
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
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Births, Marriages, and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor, and Fairfield: and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut (1898) is a book written by Edwin Stanley…
