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In her daring new biography, Shakespeare's Wife, Shakespearean authority Germaine Greer seeks to right the wrongs done to Anne. Through documentary evidence and close readings of Elizabethan texts, she re-embeds Anne's life in its social context to deliver the first systematic rebuttal to Anne's detractors. What...
Greer, one of the most influential feminist thinkers of the 20th century and author of The Female Eunuch, writes that envy and fear have driven the naysayers: "The possibility that a wife might have been closer to their idol than they could ever be, understood him better than they ever...
Following that great tradition of Shakespearean biographers, Greer's theories come thick, fast and unencumbered by hard proof. Greer postulates that Anne and William designed her pregnancy to jump-start the complicated marriage negotiations between their families. She envisions an independent Anne who, after William's departure, brought her three...
Thankfully, Greer spares us a one-dimensional portrait of a strong, self-sufficient woman: she exposes Anne's vulnerabilities, too. She accepts that on some level Anne yearned for her husband and feared his infidelity. Anne knew, says Greer, that London streets "were full of whores, from the sleaziest to...
Shakespeare's Wife is as much a social history as a biography. In some of its most fascinating passages, Anne becomes the vehicle to convey Elizabethan rituals and beliefs. During her labor, midwives likely drew the curtains and lit the fire: bright light, they thought, might drive a laboring Anne...