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Stanley Wells is Honorary President of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies of the University of Birmingham, and Honorary Emeritus Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. He has an extensive record of publications, mostly concerned with Shakespeare and his contemporaries.This eloquent, humane and balanced book wears its erudition lightly. In doing so it rescues its subject from the overbearing weight of cultural, political and theoretical baggage with which it has often been loaded in the past few decades.
Rob Maslen, TLS
Well's subtly and systematically illuminates Shakespeare's acknowledgement of the glory and horror of what it is to be fully human.
Simon Callow, The Guardian
Concise and elegantly written book.
Simon Callow, The Guardian
Advance Praise: 'From bawdy and bed-tricks to same-sex love and the pangs of sexual jealousy, Shakespeare, Sex, and Love offers a magisterial account--by the leading Shakespeare authority of our day--of the subject at the very heart of the plays and poems. Its also a terrific read.
James Shapiro, author of 1599
This eloquent, humane and balanced book wears its erudition lightly.
Times Literary Supplement
He treads a precise and delicate path through Shakespeare's works
Rob Maslen,TLS
Well-paced and informative book.
John Stubbs, Literary Review
[He] captures a great deal of the diversity and freshness of Shakespeare's writing.
John Stubbs, Literary Review,
He is an expert and highly readable guide to the highways and byways of Shakespearean sexuality.
Charles Nicholl, Financial Times
This is not a long book, but it draws on Well's decades of close-focus research as a Shakespeare scholar and editor.
Charles Nicholl, Financial Times
Deeply versed in the period, urbane and unflappable in tone, refreshingly free of ideological agendas.
Charles Nicholl, Financial Times
Wells is an expert modern guide in terms of literary criticism and biography.
The Times