Anne hathaway (shakespeares wife) death date
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Not simply Shakespeare's wife: Marking the th anniversary of Anne Hathaway's death with poetry
A new collection of poetry about Anne Hathaway has been published to mark the th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare&#;s wife on August 6, The editors of Anne-thology: Poems Re-Presenting Anne Shakespeareshare their take on Anne Hathaway&#;s life and why she deserves a book of her own.
marks the th anniversary of Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, which has come to be known as the First Folio. It is less known that during the creation of this most influential of volumes, while Othello was in fact being printed, Anne Shakespeare (née Hathaway) died. This Anne-thology seeks to ensure that the quatercentenary of Anne’s death will not simply be elided in favour of the sole memorialisation of her famous dramatist-husband.
We think she deserves a book of her own, and we place her centre-stage, cele
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Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare&#;s Wife
Anne Hathaway becomes Anne Shakespeare
When Anne Hathaway married and became Anne Shakespeare in she went to live with her husband in his parents&#; house in Henley Street, Stratford upon Avon.
Anne gave birth to children – two daughters and a son. Their first child was daughter Susanna born in , six months after William and Anne got married. Then, in , the couple had twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet died at the age of 11 during the Plague. Susanna married a local physician, Dr. John ingångsrum and Judith married a vintner, Thomas Quinney.
Soon after the marriage, William Shakespeare went to work as an actor in London while Anne remained in the Henley Street house with her in-laws. Shakespeare visited frequently but his wife Anne Hathaway never went to London, as far as anyone knows.
Anne&#;s in-laws were fairly prosperous, although that prosperity was on the decline, but their standard of living improved as her husband became, at first, well-off
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Anne Hathaway
At the age of 18, William Shakespeare married a woman called Anne Hathaway. Anne and her family were the tenants of a one-storey farmhouse on a acre farm in Shottery. The house is less than one and a half miles away from the home in which Shakespeare was born and grew up. The Hathaway descendants kept the ever-expanding cottage in the family for 13 generations until it was purchased by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in and turned into a museum.
Anne’s father was a yeoman farmer, and consequently a well-respected member of the Shottery community. Upon his death he left Anne, who was also known as Agnes, a small sum of money with which she could marry. The house was then purchased by Anne’s brother, Bartholomew, who also acquired the freehold on the farm.
Anne married William Shakespeare late in , when William was 18 years old. Anne's exact date of birth is not known, but she is thought to have been 26 when they married. What we do know is that Anne was three mont