Word: hathaways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stratford-upon-Avon, at the age of 80, is not only the oldest continuing Shakespeare stage, but also a shijne and an industry. A quarter-million tourists a year, 25,000 from the U.S., pour into this medieval town in the green-girt Cotswolds to poke curiously through Anne Hathaway's neighboring cottage and peer reverently at Shakespeare's crypt in Holy Trinity Church. The red brick Stratford Memo rial Theater receives 1,000,000 ticket requests annually, is forced to turn down four out of five. The lucky ducat holders this year will...
...pseudoscholarship designed to show that Shakespeare did not really write the plays, that he was a front man for Sir Francis Bacon or Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford,* or Christopher Marlowe or Sir Walter Raleigh or Queen Elizabeth or even the Bard's wife, Anne Hathaway. Amateur cryptographers have thought they found hidden codes in Shakespeare's writing, pointing to the true authors...
Although John Shakespeare applied for a gentleman's coat of arms around 1576, he slipped into money troubles and was dropped from the list of aldermen. Will had not been overly prudent himself. According to parish records, he and Anne Hathaway were married posthaste, without the customary three readings of the banns-Anne was three months pregnant. By Elizabethan standards, Anne's pregnancy was no great scandal, but her age -an antique 26 or so to Will's 18-was. The sole clue as to how they got on together is a rather ambiguous bequest in Shakespeare...
...wore disconcertingly low-necked dresses, lacing their breasts so high that "a candlestick could be placed upon them." Agnes Sorel, mistress of Charles VII, pioneered a bare-to-the-waist style at court and also stopped the show at the palace by affecting a kind of girl-in-the-Hathaway-patch masking of one breast. Brazenly posing as a Madonna, she managed to have this piquant fashion immortalized by Painter Jean Fouquet...