Shakespeare's wife
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Shakespeare's wife
Bloomsbury, 2008
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-388) and index
"This paperback edition published 2008"
"A BBC radio 4 book of the week" -- Cover
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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
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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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