Stanley W. Wells
Autor(a) de The Shakespeare Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
About the Author
Obras de Stanley W. Wells
Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other… (2007) 283 cópias
Shakespeare Survey 40: Current Approaches to Shakespeare through Language, Text and Theatre (1987) 10 cópias
Modernizing Shakespeare's Spelling: With Three Studies of the Text of Henry V by Gary Taylor (Oxford Shakespeare… (1979) 6 cópias
Re-editing Shakespeare for the Modern Reader: Based on Lectures Given at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington,… (1984) 5 cópias
The first annual Shakespeare Globe lecture: Staging Shakespeare's apparitions and dream visions 2 cópias
History of King Lear 1 exemplar(es)
King Lear 1 exemplar(es)
THE STRATFORD-UPON-AVON LIBRARY 1: THOMAS NASHE: PIERCE PENNILESS HIS SUPPLICATION TO THE DEVIL; SUMMER'S LAST… (1964) 1 exemplar(es)
'"O Rare Ben Jonson"' in NYRB 59/7, 26 April 2012 [review of Donaldson's 'Ben Jonson: a life'] 1 exemplar(es)
Shakespeare, an illustratated dictionary 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
4 Plays: Henry IV, Part I; Henry IV, Part II; Henry V; Richard II (1994) — Editor, algumas edições — 139 cópias
Shakespeare Up Close: Reading Early Modern Texts (Arden Shakespeare Library) (2012) — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
Lovers made men : a masque presented in the house of the Right Honourable the Lord Hay by divers of noble quality, his… — Editor, algumas edições — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Wells, Stanley William
- Data de nascimento
- 1930-05-21
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Educação
- University College London
University of Birmingham - Ocupação
- Shakespearean scholar
writer
editor - Organizações
- University of Birmingham
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 74
- Also by
- 19
- Membros
- 2,307
- Popularidade
- #11,127
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Resenhas
- 34
- ISBNs
- 182
- Idiomas
- 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.… (mais)