PROGRAMME DETAILS FOR THE 188TH SEASON 2011/2012

TUESDAY 13 DECEMBER 2011
PRESIDENT: PROFESSOR STANLEY WELLS

Honorary President, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and formerly Chairman of the Trustees of Shakespeare’s Birthplace

Stanley Wells, CBE, is Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies of the University of Birmingham and Honorary Emeritus Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, of which he was for many years Vice-Chairman. He has edited The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies and is General Editor (with Gary Taylor) of The Complete Oxford Shakespeare and co-author of William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion.
His most recent books are Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of Criticism; The Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare; The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (edited with Michael Dobson); Shakespeare For All Time; Looking for Sex in Shakespeare; Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Coffee with Shakespeare, both co-authored with Paul Edmondson, Shakespeare & Co.; and Is It True What they Say About Shakespeare? His Shakespeare, Sex, and Love was published by Oxford University Press in 2010.
He is married to the writer Susan Hill and has two daughters.

Shakespeare and I

In conversation with Paul Edmondson on the occasion of his Presidential evening.

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