Shakespeare's Wife
Little is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of England's greatest playwright; a great deal has been assumed, none of it complimentary. In Shakespeare's Wife, Germaine Greer boldly breaks new ground, reclaiming this much maligned figure from generations of scholarly neglect and misogyny. With...
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Little is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of England's greatest playwright; a great deal has been assumed, none of it complimentary. In Shakespeare's Wife, Germaine Greer boldly breaks new ground, reclaiming this much maligned figure from generations of scholarly neglect and misogyny. With deep insight and intelligence, she offers daring and thoughtful new theories about the farmer's daughter who married Britain's immortal Bard, painting a vivid portrait of a truly remarkable woman.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061537165 (0061537160)
ASIN: 61537160
Publish date: March 17th 2009
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Literary Fiction,
Feminism,
Womens
So even seemingly thinking person could get it wrong. Germaine Greer was wrong about Princess Diana, and she is wrong about transgender women. She has become irrelevant and by attacking normal person, she made it to the newspaper. Big.Fucking. Deal. I would not read any of her books any mor...
Overall the book is very good and raises challenges to the common view of Shakespeare's wife as a cradle robber. One does wonder if Greer's book was written in repsonse to Will in the World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare . A word of warning, the section tracing Anne's family tree is very dry.
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