Alex Colville

The woman in the shadows

There are few known facts about Anne Hathaway. But her afterlife in fiction – as ghost-writer of the plays and mistress of Christopher Marlowe – is vivid

  • Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway

    Katherine West Scheil

    CUP, pp. 272

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