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Stanley Wells

Shakespearean scholar · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Born 1930 · age 96

Sir Stanley William Wells, is an English Shakespearean scholar, writer, professor and editor who has been honorary president of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, professor emeritus at Birmingham University, and author of many books about Shakespeare, including Shakespeare Sex and Love, and is general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare and New Penguin Shakespeare series.

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President's Medal2016
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature2014
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Honorary Doctor of the University of Munich
Knight Bachelor

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He lives in Stratford-upon-Avon and was educated in English at University College London (UCL).

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United Kingdom
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Academics
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Academic
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Born 1930 · age 96