Mrs. Shakespeare - Robert Nye

The most-quoted and most famous playwright of the English language has his mysteries revealed in this hilarious and compulsive book. Robert Nye combines huge literary insight with the imagination and humour to blend it seamlessly with a lively tale of Elizabethan life. Anne Hathaway, the wife of whom little is known except for her husband's bequest, is brought to homely and vivacious life. And the mysteries of Shakespeare's sonnets and that bed itself are also explained. The achievement of the story is that it works on so many levels. It is at once an unlikely romance, a glimpse of history, and a subtly crafted feast of references. For everyone who ...