Honored Guest: Professor Sir Stanley Wells

One of the world’s foremost Shakespearians, Professor Sir Stanley Wells CBE, FRSL is a former Life Trustee (1975-2017) and former Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (1991-2011), Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies of the University of Birmingham, and Honorary Emeritus Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, of which he was for many years Vice-Chairman. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and of University College, London, and holds honorary doctorates from Furman University, South Carolina, and from the Universities of Munich, Hull, Durham and Warwick, Marburg, and Craiova.

Stanley received a knighthood in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours in recognition of his services to Shakespeare scholarship. He was elected The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s first Honorary President in June 2011.