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Apr 21, 2016 · So yes, Shakespeare could have loved (or lusted after) men or women other than his wife, Anne Hathaway—but the sonnets don’t prove that. Speaking of his wife … Rumor 2: Shakespeare Must Have...
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Feb 26, 2013 · In her spirited defense of Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's Wife, Germaine Greer considers misogynist assumptions based on very little evidence “considering the poor reputation of wives...
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Who was Shakespeare's Wife? William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in November 1582 and they remained married until Shakespeare's death. At the time of their marriage William was 18, while Anne was 26—and pregnant with their first child. The average age of marriage was 26 years of age, so Anne would have been an eligible young lady of her ...
Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare’s Wife. Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway, was born in 1556. Shakespeare was eight years younger than her. When they married in 1582 he was eighteen years old and she was twenty-six years old. She was pregnant at the time and whatever their relationship was like – which we don’t know anything about – he had ...
The fact that Shakespeare only left his wife their second best bed in his will is often interpreted as some form of rebuke to her. Carol Ann Duffy and Germaine Greer, however, both imagine...
This was the second scandal of Shakespeare’s life, because the Sonnets were love poems and were not written for his wife. There has always been a mystery about to whom the Sonnets were...
New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1977. Marriage is a subject that cultures have hotly debated since antiquity. During Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare watched these social events unfold around him and used it to his advantage. Shakespeare’s work reveals ideas relating to marriage, romance, and love throughout early modern Europe during the ...
