Post Tagged with: "Stanley Wells"

The world’s the stage: Shakespeare’s rise to global pre-eminence

By Jerry Brotton for the Financial Times, 30 December 2015 Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe, by Andrew Dickson, Bodley Head, RRP£20, 512 pages Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book, by Emma Smith, OUP, RRP£19.99, 328 pages The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography, edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells, Cambridge University Press, RRP£18.99/RRP$29.99, 386 pages 1606: William Shakespeare and […]

January 9, 2016 · 0 comments · Reviews
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells, book review

Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells, book review

By Nicholas de Jongh for The Independent, 16 April 2015 . . . Wells, an indefatigable Shakespeare scholar and theatre-goer, now in his mid eighties, here takes a brisk, fascinating theatrical voyage through more than four centuries, to capture the lives and glorious playing times of almost 40 famous, mainly British actors, from first Elizabethan Richard Burbage to second Elizabethan Kenneth […]

April 19, 2015 · 0 comments · Actors, Reviews
Has the mystery of Shakespeare’s Sonnets finally been solved?

Has the mystery of Shakespeare’s Sonnets finally been solved?

By Dalya Alberge for The Guardian, 31 January 2015 Some of the finest, most quoted verses in the English language were dedicated to him, and for centuries literary scholars have tried to establish his identity. Now fresh research suggests that the mysterious Mr WH, to whom Shakespeare’s sonnets were dedicated, was not, as had been thought, a contemporary English nobleman, but […]

February 3, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized