May 16, 2008
The Merry Wife of William
"I just don't think Shakespeare would have married someone who wasn't smart and didn't have a good sense of humor," Germaine Greer speculates in her contentious biography of Ann Hathaway, who wed William Shakespeare in 1582, when he was 18 and she 26. That is one of Greer's many objections to the tradition among Shakespeare commentators of disparaging Hathaway, even though almost nothing is known about her.
Shakespeare's Wife was published last year in Britain (Bloomsbury) and recently
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