# Shakespeare and Co.

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- Authors: [Stanley Wells](https://www.bookquiver.com/stanley-wells)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2007-08-30

## Description

Enjoyable, lively … such a pleasure to read … renders the drama of Shakespeare’s contemporaries more than fringe entertainment’ Independent Shakespeare is one of the greatest of all English figures, considered a genius for all time. Yet as this enthralling book shows, he was at heart a man of the theatre, one among a community of artists in the teeming world of Renaissance London – from the enigmatic spy Christopher Marlowe to the self-aggrandizing Ben Jonson, from the actor Richard Burbage to the brilliant Thomas Middleton. By bringing Shakespeare’s contemporaries to life, Shakespeare & Co throws fresh new light on the man himself. ‘Warm, cheerful, generous … Wells sketches a whole gallery of Shakespeare’s fellow playwrights … He brings each vividly to life, making you feel that you’ve met them personally in some Blackfriars tavern’ Simon Callow ‘It was a time and place teeming with excitement, anecdote and incident, and Wells, in this richly enjoyable work, brings it to life with a novelist’s sense of the telling detail’ Dominic Dromgoole ‘Enthralling’ Observer ‘This is one of the most sane and exciting books on Shakespeare I have read for a long time’ Scotland on Sunday

## Editions

### Shakespeare and Co.

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-223-3
- Published: 2013-12-05
- Language: en_GB

### Shakespeare and Co.

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4101-713-6
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2007-08-30
- Language: en_GB