Shakespeare’s Wife

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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