Stanley Wells

Stanley William Wells, CBE, (born 21 May 1930) is a Shakespeare scholar, who was Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham) from 1988-1997. He is now Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies. He is co-editor (with Gary Taylor, John Jowett and William Montgomery) of the Oxford Complete Works and (with Michael Dobson) the "Oxford Companion to Shakespeare". He has been general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare series since 1978. He is married to the writer Susan Hill.

He took his first degree at University College, London, and was awarded an honorary DLitt by the University of Warwick in 2008.

Major publications

*"Re-Editing Shakespeare for the Modern Reader" (1984)
*"The Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare" (1998)
*"Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of Criticism" (2000)
*"Shakespeare: The Poet and his Plays" (2001)
*"The Oxford Shakespeare: King Lear" (2001)
*"Shakespeare For All Time" (2002) [http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/classics/0%2C6121%2C851153%2C00.html Guardian Unlimited review]
*"Shakespeare & Co." (2006)

External links

* [http://www.shakespeare.bham.ac.uk/ The Shakespeare Institute]
* [http://www.shakespeare.bham.ac.uk/research/oxford-shakespeare.htm Professor Stanley Wells on Shaping the Oxford Shakespeare]