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Shakespeare's Wife Germaine Greer

Shakespeare's Wife By Germaine Greer

Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer


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Summary

A biography of Ann Hathaway and a social history of Shakespeare's time by the redoubtable Germaine Greer

Shakespeare's Wife Summary

Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer

Little is known about the wife of the world's most famous playwright, but much is said about her. Ann Hathaway has been mocked and vilified by scholars for centuries. The glaring omission of her name from Shakespeare's will has been gleefully used by many as evidence that she was nothing more than an ugly old wench whom William was shackled to after a thoughtless roll in the hay in his giddy youth. Yet Shakespeare went on to become the very poet of marriage, exploring the sacrament in all its aspects, spiritual, psychological, sexual and sociological. He is the creator of the most tenacious and intelligent heroines in English literature. Is it possible, therefore, that Ann was the inspiration? Until now, there has been no serious critical scholarship devoted to the much-wronged Ann Hathaway. Part-biography, part-history, Shakespeare's Wife is fascinating in its reconstruction of Ann's life, and the daily lives of Elizabethan women. Germaine Greer offers an illuminating portrait of their working routines, the rituals of their courtship, and the minutiae of married life.

Shakespeare's Wife Reviews

'The course of Shakespearean biography will never be the same again' Professor Stanley Wells (Chairman of the Shakespeare Centre)

About Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer gained her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1967 with a thesis on Shakespeare's early comedies and has taught Shakespeare at universities in Australia, Britain and the US. In 1986 she was invited to contribute the volume on Shakespeare to the prestigious Past Masters series. In 1989 she set up her own publishing imprint, Stump Cross Books, and went on to publish scholarly editions of Katherine Philips, Anne Wharton and Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. She lives on three acres by a motorway exit in north-west Essex, with two dogs, thirteen geese and a fluctuating number of doves. Shakespeare's Wife has also been shortlisted for The Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

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GOR010569482
9780747590194
0747590192
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
Used - Like New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20070903
416
Short-listed for Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Australia): Non-Fiction 2008
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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