Stanley Wells
Sir Stanley William Wells , CBE (born May 21, 1930 in Hull , United Kingdom ) is a British Shakespeare scholar and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Birmingham .
life and work
Wells was born in Hull to Stanley Cecil Wells MBE and Doris Wells. His father was an administrator at a bus company. Wells attended Kingston High School in Hull and earned an English degree from University College London . In 1951 he left the service of the RAF. In Hampshire he was a teacher before graduating in 1962 with a doctorate on Robert Greene .
Academic career
As a professor and a member of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham, he supervised over 60 doctoral students. He was editor of the Penguin Shakespeare edition, director of the "Royal Shakespeare Theater Summer School" and President of the "Royal Shakespeare Theater" of which he has been honorary president since 2003. In 1977 he became head of the Shakespeare division of Oxford University Press and responsible for the publication of the new Oxford Shakespeare edition. Together with Gary Taylor , John Jowett and William Montgomery, this was completed as a reading version of the complete edition in 1986. The multi-volume new single edition of the works is still in publication. While at Oxford, Wells was a Fellow at Balliol College . After completing his work there, he went to Stratford in 1987 and became director of the "Shakespeare Institute". From 1990 to 1997 he was director of "The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust". He is curator of the "Rose Theater" and a member of the board of directors of the "Globe Theater".
Honors
In 2007 he was named Commander of the British Empire for his services to English literature . In 2010 he received the Sam Wanamaker Prize , which is awarded annually on behalf of the founder of the new Globe Theater . He is a Fellow of University College London and an honorary doctorate from Furman University South Carolina , and the universities of Munich, Hull, Durham, Warwick, Craiova and Marburg.
Wells is married to the writer Susan Hill and has two daughters.
Selected Works
- Thomas Nashe, Selected Writings 1964
- Modernizing Shakespeare's Spelling, with Three Studies in the Text of Henry V (with Gary Taylor, 1979),
- Re-editing Shakespeare for the Modern Reader. (1984)
- William Shakespeare. A Textual Companion. (with Gary Taylor, John Jowett and William Montgomery, 1987, corrected new edition 1997)
- Shakespeare in the Theater: An Anthology of Criticism. (1997)
- The Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare. (1998)
- The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. (with Michael Dobson, 2001)
- The Oxford Shakespeare: King Lear (2001)
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. (with Margreta da Grazia, 2001, 2nd edition 2010)
- Shakespeare: The Poet and his Plays (2001)
- Shakespeare For All Time (2002)
- Shakespeare & Co. (2006)
- Shakespeare, Sex, and Love (2010)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of Stanley Wells ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Interview with Stanley Wells
- ↑ Prof. Stanley Wells, CBE
- ↑ Stanley Wells Homepage ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wells, Stanley |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wells, William Stanley (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Shakespeare scholar, author and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kingston upon Hull, UK |