Philippa Gregory is best known for reimagining the lives of famous royal women in bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn...A polemical, ground-breaking study of Elizabethan England that reclaims Ann Hathaway's rightful place in history.
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But neither is there any evidence that he didn't. A marvelous book on the wife of the greatest love poet in English which examines why Anne Hathaway has such a dreadful reputation in academia and amongst Shakespeare scholars. Everything else is conjecture, but that can usually make for an interesting read as well!This is tough book to read. Great scholarship, detailed without being dry or heavy (for the most part). I do agree that it is an easier read that other biographies.shakespeare enthusiasts and historical women's study buffsI am always surprised by Greer's actual writing. We may never be able to know the truth - unless somehow a treasure trove of documents from the time was to be unearthed - but Greer makes a convincing argument that there was more to Ann than abandoned and unloved wife.This is scholarly nonfiction that is not to my taste.This is scholarly nonfiction that is not to my taste.I had hoped and expected to enjoy this book more than I did, but it was a good read nonetheless. Greer gives evidence that Anne was the breadwinner of the family. A polemical, ground-breaking study of Elizabethan England that reclaims Ann Hathaway's rightful place in history. She notes that adultery was still a capital crime at this time, and that, especially in a small town like Stratford, no women would risk extra marital relations because the best she could hope for was expulsion from the community and loss of children, lands, and livelihood. Greer does a great job of bringing Anne out of her husband's shadow. It is interesting to read about the social.conditions of the time, the various ways a woman could earn a living for example. Nevertheless, her analysis is a welcome counterpoint to longstanding assumptions that Shakespeare was pressured into his marriage and left town as soon as possible. Greer starts by pointing out that traditionally women were not considered important in the least. What a great read this was. Fame came generations after his death. Greer's conclusions are necessarily speculative because so little is known about Shakespeare's personal life and his relationship with his family. Players and playwrights were not the best paid professionals either.
It's the same throughout the book. But her style is dry and staccato-like an older collge professor droning along, ignoring the hands raised to ask questions about his convoluted lecture. Anne and her family were the tenants of a one-storey farmhouse on a 90-acre farm in Shottery. The trouble is that there is h ardly any information available about Anne Hathaway, and almost anything said about her must be only conjecture. In addition to examining how Anne Hathaway's expA fascinating biography of Anne Hathaway that places her and her daughters within the context of the social history of Stratford-upon-Avon. Greer criticises other writers for making unproven assumptions about the Shakespeares, then makes equally unproven assumptions of her own (a whole chapter for example on what Shakespeare may have died of). etc. So cancer might be the truer cause of death. Divorces were not allowed for commoners. We may never be able to know the truth - unless somehow a treasure trove of docA 3.5 star book for me. Also, Greer shows that a woman of Anne's rank almost certainly knew how to read and write. She proposes that he finally died young of a venerial disease or even cancer. Greer assumes Anne had to work to support her self and her children, which may have been the case. This is an eye-opening exposition, but is tedious at times.This is a brilliant, meticulously researched book that mainly raises the question 'if we know nothing about Shakespeare's wife, why have so many historians filled in the gaps with misogyny and bile? Among the classes lower than the gentry, married women and children had no rights to their husbands' or fathers' income. Judge for yourself. In the process of making sense of what documents that do survive from the late 16th century on William and Ann themselves and using other sources unconnected to the Shakespeares, she covers a very interesting period in the economic and spiritual life of the family in Stradford. Her husband's fans recoiled from the notion that she might have made a significant contribution towards his achievement of greatness. Like the author, I hope that new sources concerning Anne Hathaway will emerge, providing more details of the life she led in Stratford-upon-Avon. And makes the point that they may not have had an unhappy marriage as every other (male) Shakespeare biographer takes for granted. It was the Elizabethan age. Whatever the case, in his last years at home he may have done more harm than good to his family. etc. There's plenty to enjoy here if you can overlook all the assumptions made.Good read but slightly disappointed. On one of our trips around the U.K., we spent a weekend at Stratford. Maybe you posted this question in the wrong place? In those days (theater as an industry had just begun) players and playwrights were considered the lowest of the lowest class of citizens like prostitutes. A brief mention, summary, of what was happening would have been sufficient, rather than pages and pages with little mention of Ann's part in it. Divorces were not allowed for commoners. Greer has done an incredible amount of research for this book. Shakespeare's wife, Germaine Greer, Bloomsbury Libri. -Shakespeare's Wife- is not a novel. The possibility that a wife might have been closer to their idol than they could ever be, understood him better than they ever could, could not be entertained.”“Society seems to find it irresistible to characterise the “unworldliness” of the male intellectual and academic in terms of his failure to control the women in his life.” For anyone intensely studying Shakespeare, this should be required reading. Anne Hathaway was a partner in a mature relationship with Shakespeare. Greer's conclusions are necessarily speculative because so little is known about Shakespeare's personal life and his relationship with his family.
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