______________ 'Excellent ... a marvellous imagining of the life of Shakespeare's wife and a devastating exposure of the misogyny of the male biographers who have disparaged her' - Sunday Telegraph 'Greer dares to think the unthinkable ... this is a bold and imaginative book' - Independent 'A spirited, voluble, scholarly book which gives some depth and some dignity to the marginalised Mrs Shakespeare' - Guardian ______________ AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4'S BOOK OF THE WEEK Little is known of the wife of England's greatest ...
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______________ 'Excellent ... a marvellous imagining of the life of Shakespeare's wife and a devastating exposure of the misogyny of the male biographers who have disparaged her' - Sunday Telegraph 'Greer dares to think the unthinkable ... this is a bold and imaginative book' - Independent 'A spirited, voluble, scholarly book which gives some depth and some dignity to the marginalised Mrs Shakespeare' - Guardian ______________ AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4'S BOOK OF THE WEEK Little is known of the wife of England's greatest playwright. In play after play Shakespeare presents the finding of a worthy wife as a triumphant denouement, yet scholars persist in believing that his own wife was resented and even hated by him. Here Germaine Greer strives to re-embed the story of their marriage in its social context and presents new hypotheses about the life of the farmer's daughter who married our greatest poet. This is a daring, insightful book that asks new questions, opens new fields of investigation and research, and rights the wrongs done to Ann Shakespeare. 'A refreshing corrective to the usual portrait ... Greer is impressive when it comes to detailing their Stratford life and times ... It's robust, lively stuff' - The Times
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I have often wondered about the mysterious woman who was married to William Shakespeare. Ann Hathaway, when she is mentioned at all, is dismissed as an intellectual midget at best, a hindrance and a bitch at worst. This book attempts, brilliantly, to paint a broader, kinder portrait. Using a vast array of contemporary sources, Greer suggests that many commonly held views have in fact more to do with the thinking of our own time than Shakespeare's, and have little to do with what the reality often was. She raises more questions than she can answer, certainly, but what an impressive hypothesis! Thorough, thoughtful, and sympathetic - and rather daring, I must say. It leaves me with a greater appreciation for the Bard's work, and a longing to have met Mistress Shakespeare. Well done!
(My only complaint? This book is just crying out for appendices - Shakespeare's complete will would have been helpful, for example - but never mind.)
