Stanley Wells

Stanley William Wells, CBE, (born 21 May 1930) is a Shakespeare scholar and Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Wells took his first degree at University College, London, and was awarded an honorary DLitt by the University of...

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...real difference in quality between the two authors, he said. However, some experts are still sceptical about the new finding. Stanley Wells, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, said: I am sceptical, frankly, that we have yet...

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...by Shakespeare was largely dismissed until the late 1990s, but it was included in The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Stanley Wells, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, said: "I am sceptical, frankly, that we have yet...

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"They think, Shakespeare has been elevated to the position of the Bard, so why would he have collaborated with anyone else?" Stanley Wells, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, said: "I am sceptical, frankly, that we have yet...

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...accent is closer to the sounds that Shakespeare heard when he was writing.'' Sir Trevor's views have failed to impress Professor Stanley Wells, the chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. "There are many American accents and they are...

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...one of the country's most respected writers. Hill lives in a Gloucestershire farmhouse with her husband, the Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells, among the accumulated books of a lifetime. These range from childhood annuals (she still gets The...

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...suggest he was intimate with Southampton. Could Shakespeare have risen so far -- and presumed so much? Duncan-Jones says no; Wells says yes. Wells acknowledges the patchwork nature of his reasoning. "You have to do a lot of stitching," he...

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...year, the trust added. The charity said police were studying CCTV footage following the damage. Chairman Professor Stanley Wells said: "It's most regrettable that anyone should feel an urge to deface an important historical landmark.

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...blue tunic of a kind worn only by the wealthy and successful men of the age. At the news conference, Wells and other experts said they were convinced after three years of studying the portrait, and subjecting it to elaborate...

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...including a very beautifully painted ruff of Italian lacework which would have been very expensive," Wells said. "It establishes, for me, that Shakespeare in his later years was a rather wealthy, a rather well affluent member of...

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