Who is the 'real' Anne Hathaway? The afterlife of Shakespeare's wife is revealed in a new book

Although factual information has been available about Anne Hathaway since the seventeenth century, she has been wildly exaggerated, outrageously degraded, enthusiastically embellished and completely ignored - until now.
'Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway' is the first cultural history of Anne Hathaway ever published. It examines representations of Anne from the earliest depictions in art and literature, to contemporary portrayals in books, theatre and film.
Throughout the book we meet a widely divergent cast of characters, from an eighteenth-century teenager forging documents to please his father, to a twentieth-century young adult novelist writing primarily for young women, from Ivy League biographers to World War II soldiers.
Author Katherine Scheil shows how and why Anne Hathaway has remained a significant figure of worldwide fascination and global obsession and what that says about changing attitudes to women, marriage, sexuality and art.
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