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Shakespeare and His Wife

ON SHAKESPEARE - by G.L. Horton

JD writes: Will Shakspere, who left no book, no MS, no letter when he died but only the memory of his mean heart to his faithful wife.

If Ann was faithful to her notoriously and publicly unfaithful sonneteer husband, it could only be out of perverse spite or puritan self-righteousness. She had a perfect excuse for "frailty, sport, and appetite" in his absence and his instructive example. Will wrote the excuse out for her, even, and gave it to Emelia, his best female character. (01/27/02)

 

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