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...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 emerges is a provocative, well-reasoned set of hypotheses that suggests Shakespeare drew inspiration from, and even loved, his other half...
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 could, could not be entertained." This contentious tone colors much of her discussion. Greer argues that upon marriage Anne had not passed "her sell-by date" - the average Elizabethan woman married at 27 - and that as a landholder she could gain little by seducing a "penniless teenage boy, with nothing...
...secret Islamist agenda. As President, Gul has the power to approve or veto legislation, and secularists fear that he will sign into law any bill passed by Erdogan's government without concern for the separation of religion and politics. They are also infuriated by the fact that his wife Hayrunnisa dons a headscarf - Islamic attire is restricted in government offices under laws that date back to Ataturk?s reforms...
...Texas, the Attorney General called President Bush and told him "that he felt it would be in the best interest of the [Justice] department," if he stepped down, according to a senior Administration official. The President "reluctantly accepted that decision," the official says, and later asked Gonzales and his wife, Becky, to come down to Crawford, Texas, where Bush has been on vacation. Arriving for an informal lunch with the President and First Lady there on Sunday, Gonzales handed over his resignation in writing and told the President that he'd be able to stay in the job only...
...misery - or even defines it as true misery. Martin, responding to the torch-song image of Teresa, counterproposes her as the heroically constant spouse. "Let's say you're married and you fall in love and you believe with all your heart that marriage is a sacrament. And your wife, God forbid, gets a stroke and she's comatose. And you will never experience her love again. It's like loving and caring for a person for 50 years and once in a while you complain to your spiritual director, but you know on the deepest level that she loves...