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Stanley Wells
Shakespeare on Page and Stage
Selected Essays

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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 he has made significant contributions to debates over literary criticism of the works, genre study, textual theory, Shakespeare’safterlife 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.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 496 ● ISBN 9780191090103 ● Editor Paul Edmondson ● Publisher OUP Oxford ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5281461 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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