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Stanley Wells

Stanley Wells is Honorary President of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His two new books, Great Shakespeare Actors: From Burbage to Branagh and William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction, are to be published in June and September of this year. (March 2015)

Shakespeare and the Struggle for Power

Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare’s Time

by Garry Wills

March 19, 2015 issue

In the Court of a Monster

Bring Up the Bodies

by Hilary Mantel

August 16, 2012 issue

‘O Rare Ben Jonson’

Ben Jonson: A Life

by Ian Donaldson

April 26, 2012 issue

Taking Random House for a Shakespearean Ride

The Tragedy of Arthur

by Arthur Phillips

October 27, 2011 issue

Plotting Against the Stratford Man

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

by James Shapiro

May 27, 2010 issue

The Greatest Actress of Her Age

A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Two Remarkable Families

by Michael Holroyd

June 11, 2009 issue

Mistress Shakespeare

“Germaine Greer reasonably sees no good reason to suppose that Shakespeare was not genuinely in love with Ann when he impregnated her. It has been realized since 1971 that Sonnet 145, with its pun on ‘hate away,’ is likely to be a product of his courtship.”

Shakespeare's Wife

by Germaine Greer

April 17, 2008 issue