25 January 2008
Germaine Greer: Edinburgh International Book Festival
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The irrepressible intelligence of Germaine Greer has recently been applied to a subject she knows a lot about. She did her PhD in 1968 on the ethic of love and marriage in Shakespeare's early comedies, and in her latest book Shakespeare's Wife, she takes another look at the marriage of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway. The marriage has had a very bad press from generations of Oxford and Cambridge dons, who regarded it as cold and loveless. But Germaine argues that Anne has been undervalued both for what she meant to Shakespeare and what she contributed to his work.
This lecture was recorded by the Book Show at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Publications
Title: Shakespeare's Wife
Author: Germaine Greer
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN-13: 978-0747591702
Presenter
Ramona Koval
Producer
Carey Dell
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