· 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 Brand: HarperCollins Publishers. · Shakespeare's Wife. by Germaine Greer. pp, Bloomsbury, £ Ann or Agnes Hathaway was a farmer's daughter from Shottery, near Stratford. Born in Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. 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 /5().
Shakespeare's Wife is a compelling, insightful book that already goes some way to right the wrongs done to Ann Shakespeare. About the Author Germaine Greer gained her PhD from the University of Cambridge in with a thesis on Shakespeare's early comedies and has taught Shakespeare at universities in Australia, Britain and the US. In she. Shakespeare's Wife. by. Germaine Greer. · Rating details · ratings · reviews. A polemical, ground-breaking study of Elizabethan England that reclaims Ann Hathaway's rightful place in history. Little is known about the wife of the world's most famous playwright; a great deal, none of it complimentary, has been assumed. Thus Germaine Greer begins Shakespeare's Wife. Coming from one of the best known of living feminist writers, the statement is hardly surprising, but it is not what one expects at the beginning.
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer pp, Bloomsbury, £ Ann or Agnes Hathaway was a farmer's daughter from Shottery, near Stratford. Born in about , she was 26 years old when she married. Longtime feminist provocateur Greer (Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way to Nationhood, , etc.) proffers a wildly far-fetched “biography” of the Bard’s underdocumented spouse. The author blithely disregards the perils of extrapolating a historical record from Shakespeare’s writing in this glue-and-scissors account. Author: Germaine Greer Title: Shakespeare's Wife ISBN ISBN bltadwin.ru2 Pages: Publisher: Emblem Editions; 1 edition (August.
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