Katherine West Scheil

Imagining Shakespeare's Wife (eBook, ePUB)

The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108265676
• Artikelnr.: 54151234

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.