US EditionLetter sheds possible new light on Shakespeare's marriage
- A newly analyzed 17th-century letter suggests that William Shakespeare lived with his wife, Anne Hathaway, in London between 1600 and 1610, challenging earlier beliefs about their marriage.
- Professor Matthew Steggle from the University of Bristol found the letter, which was hidden in a book binding, revealing Anne's involvement in financial matters with her husband.
- Steggle explained that the letter indicates Anne Hathaway was engaged in social networks in London, contradicting the idea that she was abandoned by Shakespeare.
- The letter shows Hathaway defending Shakespeare against a money claim by an orphan boy named John Butts.
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The Sun (Lowell)
How a surprising Shakespeare discovery was found in a letter used as scrap paper
A 400-year-old Shakespeare mystery has gotten a major shake-up. In a paper published in the journal Shakespeare on April 24 — the day after the Bard’s 461st birthday, if you happened to have candles and an extremely large cake on hand — Professor Matthew Steggle, Chair in Early Modern English Literature at University of Bristol, presented research that finds potential significance in the scraps of a letter first discovered in 1978. Incredibly, t…
Shoemaker: Rad Bro of Avon and Inventor of Words - The Xenia Gazette
By Dave Shoemaker Contributing columnist I have no idea why I was boning up on Shakespeare today but I’ll be damned if I wasn’t. During my reading, I was reminded of how awesome The Bard of Avon actually was. For instance, if he couldn’t think of a word for something, he basically just made one up. True story. Although he invented a boatload of words, I’ll just give you the ten I think are the most interesting. Let us commence with Shakespeare’s…
New Hampshire Union Leader
Shakespeare may not have been a remote husband, new study finds
Fresh analysis by a British scholar of a long-forgotten fragment of a letter addressed to the “Good Mrs Shakspaire” suggests that the renowned playwright William Shakespeare might not have been such a distant husband at all — and that he…
Shakespeare not an absent spouse, study proposes
What happened William Shakespeare was not an absentee husband living in an unhappy marriage to Anne Hathaway, as the couple has been portrayed for the past 200 years, a British scholar argues in a study published Wednesday in the journal Shakespeare. Instead, Matthew Steggle of the University of Bristol said, a letter fragment discovered in 1978 suggests the Shakespeares lived together in London during a fruitful decade in which the Bard wrote s…
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