Imagining Shakespeare's Wife

The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway

AvKatherine West Scheil

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-28
Mått:158 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt:610 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:294
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108416696

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Katherine West Scheil is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. Her previous works have focused on the reception history of Shakespeare, and include The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theater (2003), Shakespeare, Adaptation, Modern Drama, co-edited with Randall Martin (2011) and She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America (2012).

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'[It is to] Scheil's credit that while she presents and discusses these myriad Annes, she always keeps the reader aware of the true Anne, the one who we cannot know, who is impossible to know, but who deserves to be acknowledged simply because she is human. Highly recommend.' The Fish Shelf (www.fishshelf.blogspot.co.uk)

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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.