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Little is known about the wife of the worlds most famous playwright but muchis said about her. Ann Hathaway has been mocked and vilified by scholars forcenturies. The glaring omission of her name from Shakespeares will has beengleefully used by many as evidence that she was nothing more than an ugly oldwench whom William was shackled to after a thoughtless roll in the hay in hisgiddy youth.Yet Shakespeare went on to become the very poet of marriage exploring thesacrament in all its aspects spiritual psychological sexual andsociological. He is the creator of the most tenacious and intelligent heroinesin English literature. Is it possible therefore that Ann was the inspiration?Until now there has been no serious critical scholarship devoted to the muchwronged Ann Hathaway. Partbiography parthistory SHAKESPEARES WIFE isfascinating in its reconstruction of Anns life and the daily lives ofElizabethan women. Germaine Greer offers an illuminating portrait of theirworking routines the rituals of their courtship and the minutiae of marriedlife. «
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