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Shakespeare and his friends.(Shakespeare and Co. Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story)(Book review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20070622
Author:Berry, Ralph

Shakespeare and Co. Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story. Stanley Wells. Allen Lane. [pounds sterling]25.00. xv + 286 pages. ISBN 0-713-99773-7.

For Private Eye, Stanley Wells is 'the Stakhanovite Shakespearian'. His latest addition to the production line 'attempts to place Shakespeare in relation to the actors and other writers, mainly playwrights, of his time in an accessible and where possible entertaining manner'. These worthy aims are imperfectly realized. If you do the start-up anecdote, in ...

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