Shakespeare on Page and Stage: Selected Essays
Shakespeare on Page and Stage: Selected Essays by Stanley Wells
2016 | ISBN: 0198786549 | English | 300 pages | PDF | 3 MB
2016 | ISBN: 0198786549 | English | 300 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking Oxford Shakespeare and over his lifetime, Wells has made significant contributions to debates over literary criticism of the works, genre study, textual theory, Shakespeare's afterlife in the theatre, and contemporary performance. The volume is introduced by Peter Holland and its thirty chapters are divided into themed sections: "Shakespearian Influences," "Essays on Particular Works," "Shakespeare in the Theatre," and "Shakespeare's Text." An afterword by Margreta de Grazia concludes the volume.