Stanley W. Wells
Auteur de The Shakespeare Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Œuvres de Stanley W. Wells
Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other… (2007) 284 exemplaires
Shakespeare Survey 40: Current Approaches to Shakespeare through Language, Text and Theatre (1987) 10 exemplaires
Modernizing Shakespeare's Spelling: With Three Studies of the Text of Henry V by Gary Taylor (Oxford Shakespeare… (1979) 6 exemplaires
Re-editing Shakespeare for the Modern Reader: Based on Lectures Given at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington,… (1984) 5 exemplaires
Literature and Drama: With Special Reference to Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (1970) 3 exemplaires
William Shakespeare: the complete works 2 exemplaires
The first annual Shakespeare Globe lecture: Staging Shakespeare's apparitions and dream visions 2 exemplaires
History of King Lear 1 exemplaire
King Lear 1 exemplaire
THE STRATFORD-UPON-AVON LIBRARY 1: THOMAS NASHE: PIERCE PENNILESS HIS SUPPLICATION TO THE DEVIL; SUMMER'S LAST… (1964) 1 exemplaire
'"O Rare Ben Jonson"' in NYRB 59/7, 26 April 2012 [review of Donaldson's 'Ben Jonson: a life'] 1 exemplaire
Shakespeare, an illustratated dictionary 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Illustrated Stratford Shakespeare (1589) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 31,724 exemplaires
La Tragédie du roi Richard II (1597) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 4,160 exemplaires
4 Plays: Henry IV, Part I; Henry IV, Part II; Henry V; Richard II (1994) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 139 exemplaires
The Pocket Companion to Shakespeare's Plays (1981) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 96 exemplaires
Shakespeare Up Close: Reading Early Modern Texts (Arden Shakespeare Library) (2012) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
A Book of masques : in honour of Allardyce Nicoll (1967) — Directeur de publication — 11 exemplaires
Lovers made men : a masque presented in the house of the Right Honourable the Lord Hay by divers of noble quality, his… — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Wells, Stanley William
- Date de naissance
- 1930-05-21
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Études
- University College London
University of Birmingham - Professions
- Shakespearean scholar
writer
editor - Organisations
- University of Birmingham
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 74
- Aussi par
- 19
- Membres
- 2,318
- Popularité
- #11,072
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 34
- ISBN
- 185
- Langues
- 6
This is, for my money, the most readable, approachable, intelligent introduction to Shakespeare studies that I've yet found. Each of the book's 45 chapters is written by a different scholar, and edited by Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin. Over the course of this 45 chapters, readers are given a detailed but comprehensive introduction to the headline topics. This includes Shakespeare's life from birth to death; the theatres and culture of his time; how plays were written, performed, and printed; Shakespeare's genres; close readings of several of the plays; performance practice through the ages; some of the main branches of Shakespearean criticism, ranging from post-colonial and feminist to new historicism; Shakespeare on film and in translation; and Shakespeare online. While the last of those categories is hopelessly outdated, the rest remains invaluable.
What the editors get right is that each chapter is written with a scholarly air, rather than presenting "Shakespeare for Dummies!". At the same time, I wish that some of my Penguin or Arden editions chose to include a few of these morsels. The plain-speaking explanation of the difference between iambs, trochees and spondees will be of much use to someone approaching Shakespeare with trepidation. Each chapter also includes a bibliography for suggested reading, which should be able to direct the keen reader to a wealth of knowledge.
Of course, at the end of the day, most chapters are roughly 10 pages long. This is an overview, and a ground-level one at that. But, after all, the joy of Shakespeare is in the discovery. I recommend this book to all - even if you're fairly well-read - as you'll find many avenues to explore in the future.… (plus d'informations)