One of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespearian scholars considers the
extent to which sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing relies on interpretation
by actors, directors and critics. Tracing interpretations of Shakespearian
"bawdy" and "innuendo" from the eighteenth-century to the present, Stanley Wells
pays special attention to interpretations of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the
Sonnets and homosexual relationships in the plays.