A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION/ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Stanley Wells is Britain's pre-eminent Shakespeare scholar. Written with enthusiasm, authority, and charm, this is his engaging intr oduction to the whole Shakespeare -his narrative poems, sonnets, and all of his plays, together with his life, the social and intell ectual background and the literary traditions upon which he drew, and the theatre of his day. It is an extraordinary feat of clarity and compression to bring the reader the Bard in just over 140 pages.