Charles Nicholl on the Real Anne Shakespeare
| Today on the NYR Online Charles Nicholl looks into the long-simmering question of whether two scraps of paper found in 1978, tucked into the spine of a seventeenth-century book, are in fact fragments of Anne Shakespeare née Hathaway’s letters. A new investigation, Nicholl believes, has provided “a powerful argument—if not final proof” that the fragments, which concern a trust for the children of a widowed mother, are indeed part of Mrs. Shakespeare’s correspondence, and thus represent the only known material written in her hand. The historical and literary interest of the fragments, Nicholl continues, is “compounded by [one of the letter’s] references—twice in the opening lines—to ‘your husband.’” Below, alongside Nicholl’s essay, are five articles from our archive about William and Anne Shakespeare, historic personages. Far from providing a nostalgic refuge from the contemporary Internet, The Sims taps into some of its most foundational assumptions. Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet imagines a literary legacy for Shakespeare’s wife and son. —January 14, 2021 “Germaine Greer reasonably sees no good reason to suppose that Shakespeare was not genuinely in love with Ann when he impregnated her. It has been realized since 1971 that Sonnet 145, with its pun on ‘hate away,’ is likely to be a product of his courtship.” —April 17, 2008 “I will attempt in what follows to trace Hamlet back to a personal experience of grief and to sketch a long-term aesthetic strategy that seems to have emerged from this experience.” —October 21, 2004 “The picture we are here given of an author who was sought after but kept his distance is confirmed by other evidence—for instance, he neither offered nor asked for complimentary verses; he belonged to no literary clique, and praised very few contemporary writers, though many praised him.” —January 17, 1985 “The fact is that throughout his career Shakespeare celebrated married sexuality and women’s active participation in it.” —June 11, 1981 Save $168 on an inspired pairing!
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