Tag Archives: Anne Hathaway

The case for Anne Hathaway

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Sylvia Morris

Last week I attended a lecture in which the speaker said, with a laugh, that according to Stephen Greenblatt and others Shakespeare left Stratford in order to get away from his wife. I bristled. Why, when it wasn’t relevant to the … Continue reading →

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Ben Jonson and Anne Hathaways’s shared anniversaries

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Sylvia Morris

I couldn’t let the 6 August go by without mentioning that it’s the anniversary of the death of two of the people most important to Shakespeare.   Ben Jonson Ben Jonson’s relationship with Shakespeare spanned almost twenty years, beginning, according to … Continue reading →

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I’ll write it straight: The Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Sylvia Morris

This is the second post looking at the subjects raised by the 29 July conference launching the new online Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700.   The first paper was contributed by the prolific writer and academic Germaine Greer. Ever since the publication of … Continue reading →

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