Stanley Wells is Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham. The Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Vice-Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, he is the General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare series and the Oxford Complete Works. A world-renowned authority, he regularly appears on TV, radio, and in the press whenever Shakespeare is discussed.
"Here is a man who has a fair claim to be the most complete
Shakespearian of them all.... Now he has distilled a lifetime's
work into one crisply written, richly illustrated and entertaining
book."--The Sunday Times
"Scholarly, urbane, rich in anecdotes and marvelously readable, it
is a meticulously constructed and authoritative survey with a vast
and satisfying scope."--New Statesman
"The doyen of modern British Shakespeare scholarship.... Few will
deny that he has an indisputable right to produce yet another book
on Shakespeare whenever he feels like it.... His subject calls for,
and gets, abundant, handsome, and instructive illustration. The
book is therefore something of a hybrid, the biography amiable, the
afterlife placidly illuminating and useful."--Frank Kermode, The
New York Times Book Review
"This copiously illustrated album admirably compresses more than
four centuries of the bard and more than 50 years of Wells's
devotion to him."--Publishers Weekly
"Written with generosity and humor, Wells's book is an illustrated
compendium encompassing new readings of the Bard's
Stratford-upon-Avon and London years, thoughtful observations of
Shakespeare the writer and a lively history of the Shakespeare
legend.... Wells navigates through Shakespeare's afterlife with wit
and authority. Whether dealing with his legacy in the fields of the
visual arts, music, cinema, theatre or television, the book
celebrates all
Shakespearean manifestations, their imperfections notwithstanding.
The result is that Wells brings us as close to an understanding of
the man, the writer and the legend, as is possible in a
one-volume
study."--American Theatre
"Wells is deservedly the most celebrated Shakespearean scholar of
our time.... It is not often you meet a scholar with a sense of
humor, but Wells made me laugh out loud at his section which
concerns the discrepancies of the various Shakespeare printed
text.... Many anecdotes make the richly illustrated text a
delight."--Birmingham Post
"One of those heavy, beautifully produced books which is a pleasure
to look at as it is to read.... There's no doubting the scholarship
here"--Time Out London
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