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The research serves as a counterpoint to an older narrative that imagines William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway mostly living ...
William Shakespeare’s marriage to Anne Hathaway may have been happier than previously thought, according to new research.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, author Maggie O'Farrell, whose book Hamnet is a fictionalised account of ...
New analysis of a letter fragment mentioning Shakespeare and his wife suggests the couple lived together in London in the ...
William Shakespeare may not have abandoned his wife, a previously “ignored” 17th century letter has revealed, undermining a ...
Professor Steggle, an expert in early modern English, unearthed a letter fragment addressed to "good Mrs Shakespeare." This ...
A British scholar’s analysis of a 17th-century letter fragment challenges long-held beliefs about the Bard’s marriage.
Steggle provides "plenty of plausible evidence " but "no smoking gun," James Shapiro, a Shakespeare scholar at Columbia ...
The meaning of ‘happiness’ was in flux in Shakespeare’s England, and his plays capture many senses of the word.
The relationship between William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway may have been happier than previously thought, according to new research. For more than 200 years it has been believed that ...