by A. Phoenix.
From his student graduate days Professor Stanley Wells steadily rose through the Stratfordian ranks to eventually replace his veritable hero Samuel Schoenbaum as Mr Shakespeare. Wells joined the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford in 1959 beginning his long association with the Royal Shakespeare Company, later serving as its director and vice-chairman of the governors. The Shakespeare Institute forms part of the University of Birmingham where he taught at undergraduate and graduate level allowing him to undertake research and publish his first work the Royal Shakespeare.
