Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway
Cambridge University Press, 6/28/2018
EAN 9781108404068, ISBN10: 1108404065
Paperback, 294 pages, 22.7 x 15.3 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
What has been the appeal of Anne Hathaway, both globally and temporally, over the past four hundred years? Why does she continue to be reinterpreted and reshaped? Imagining Shakespeare's Wife examines representations of Hathaway, from the earliest depictions and details in the eighteenth century, to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels. Residing in the nexus between Shakespeare's life and works, Hathaway has been constructed to explain the women in the plays but also composed from the material in the plays. Presenting the very first cultural history of Hathaway, Katherine Scheil offers a richly original study that uncovers how the material circumstances of history affect the later reconstruction of lives.
Preface
1. Origins
2. Forging the Shakespeare marriage
Anne Hathaway in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
3. The legacy of Anne Hathaway's cottage
Interlude
fact and fiction
4. 'Fit to marry'
early imaginary Annes
5. Post-war imaginary Annes
6. Anne Hathaway for a female audience
Conclusion.