Katherine West Scheil (University of Minnesota)

Imagining Shakespeare's Wife

The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the very first cultural history of Anne Hathaway, examining representations of her from the eighteenth century to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels. It offers a richly original study that uncovers how the material circumstances of history affect the later reconstruction of lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9781108416696
• ISBN-10: 1108416691
• Artikelnr.: 51151083

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.