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. Its chapters are divided into themed sections, on Shakespearian influences, particular works, theatre, and text.
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. Its chapters are divided into themed sections, on Shakespearian influences, particular works, theatre, and text.
Sir Stanley Wells, CBE, FRSL, described by Roy Hattersley as 'Our greatest authority on Shakespeare's life and work', is Honorary President, Life Trustee, and former Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He was Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, from 1988-1997, and is now Emeritus Professor. He is an Honorary Emeritus Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has been General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare since 1978 and is General Editor of the Penguin Shakespeare. One of the most distinguished Shakespearian scholars currently working, his publications include Shakespeare For All Time (2002), Shakespeare & Co (2006), Shakespeare, Sex, and Love (2010), Great Shakespeare Actors (2015), William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction (2015), and Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Very Short Introduction (2017).
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* Introduction * I. Shakespearian Influences * 1: Shakespeare: Man of the European Renaissance * 2: Tales from Shakespeare * II. Essays on Particular Works * 3: The Failure of The Two Gentlemen of Verona * 4: The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear: A Structural Comparison * 5: The Integration of Violent Action in Titus Andronicus * 6: The Challenges of Romeo and Juliet * 7: Juliet's Nurse: The Uses of Inconsequentiality * 8: The Lamentable Tale of Richard II * 9: A Midsummer Night's Dream Revisited * 10: Translations in A Midsummer Night's Dream * 11: The Once and Future King Lear * 12: Points of Stagecraft in The Tempest * 13: 'My Name is Will': Shakespeare's Sonnets and Autobiography * 14: Shakespeare Without Sources * 15: Shakespeare and Romance * III. Shakespeare in the Theatre * 16: Boys Should be Girls: Shakespeare s Female Roles and the Boy Players * 17: Staging Shakespeare's Ghosts * 18: Staging Shakespeare's Apparitions and Dream Visions * 19: Shakespeare in PlanchÃ(c)'s Extravaganzas * 20: Shakespeare in Max Beerbohm's Theatre Criticism * 21: Shakespeare in Leigh Hunt's Theatre Criticism * 22: Shakespeare in Hazlitt's Theatre Criticism * 23: Peter Hall's Coriolanus, 1959 * IV. Shakespeare's Text * 24: On Being a General Editor * 25: Editorial Treatment of Foul-Paper Texts: Much Ado About Nothing as Test Case * 26: Money in Shakespeare's Comedies * 27: To Read a Play: The Problem of Editorial Intervention * 28: The First Folio: Where Should We be Without it? * 29: The Limitations of the First Folio * Afterword * Notes * Select List of Publications * Acknowledgements * Index
* Introduction * I. Shakespearian Influences * 1: Shakespeare: Man of the European Renaissance * 2: Tales from Shakespeare * II. Essays on Particular Works * 3: The Failure of The Two Gentlemen of Verona * 4: The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear: A Structural Comparison * 5: The Integration of Violent Action in Titus Andronicus * 6: The Challenges of Romeo and Juliet * 7: Juliet's Nurse: The Uses of Inconsequentiality * 8: The Lamentable Tale of Richard II * 9: A Midsummer Night's Dream Revisited * 10: Translations in A Midsummer Night's Dream * 11: The Once and Future King Lear * 12: Points of Stagecraft in The Tempest * 13: 'My Name is Will': Shakespeare's Sonnets and Autobiography * 14: Shakespeare Without Sources * 15: Shakespeare and Romance * III. Shakespeare in the Theatre * 16: Boys Should be Girls: Shakespeare s Female Roles and the Boy Players * 17: Staging Shakespeare's Ghosts * 18: Staging Shakespeare's Apparitions and Dream Visions * 19: Shakespeare in PlanchÃ(c)'s Extravaganzas * 20: Shakespeare in Max Beerbohm's Theatre Criticism * 21: Shakespeare in Leigh Hunt's Theatre Criticism * 22: Shakespeare in Hazlitt's Theatre Criticism * 23: Peter Hall's Coriolanus, 1959 * IV. Shakespeare's Text * 24: On Being a General Editor * 25: Editorial Treatment of Foul-Paper Texts: Much Ado About Nothing as Test Case * 26: Money in Shakespeare's Comedies * 27: To Read a Play: The Problem of Editorial Intervention * 28: The First Folio: Where Should We be Without it? * 29: The Limitations of the First Folio * Afterword * Notes * Select List of Publications * Acknowledgements * Index
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