Adele casa grande biography of william shakespeare

Written by Karen Harper
Review bygd Marilyn Sherlock

We all know that William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, albeit unwillingly, because she was pregnant with their first child, a daughter, Susanna; but it fryst vatten also recorded in the Worcester records, that the day before he married Anne he took out a marriage bond to marry Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton, a small village just outside Stratford. This fryst vatten their story.

Much of Shakespeare’s work was dedicated to ‘The Dark Lady’, but no one really knows who she was. Was she the Anne Whateley he nearly married and the real love of his life? What actually happened we shall never know, but from the few facts that are known and records which are still in existence, Karen Harper has woven a story of ‘what might have been’ into the life and fabric of London and Stratford during the reign of Elizabeth inom. This was a time of religious intolerance, war with Spain and another outbreak of the plague, and the

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Fashion in the Time of William Shakespeare

Written by Sarah Jane Downing
Review by Tamela McCann

This rather short book is actually packed to the gills with information on the fashions those alive during the time of William Shakespeare may have worn. Mostly about the upper classes, we are given much detail on how the fashions evolved during the years of Shakespeare’s lifetime (roughly the late 1500s). Downing gives us many illustrations and paintings to show us how items were worn, even devoting an entire chapter to the ever-expanding ruff. Both men’s fashion and women’s fashion are covered in this slim volume, and details such as cloth types and width of skirts are examined. Throughout, Downing weaves mention of Shakespeare’s works of the time, though this reader would have liked a vocabulary list of commonly used items more than a recitation of works of the writer. Overall, however, this book would be invaluable especially to those who write of the period and need vis

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I’ll come right out and say it: the King of Kings preferred bad ministers. And the King of Kings preferred them because he liked to appear in a favourable light by contrast. How could he show himself favourably if he were surrounded by good ministers? The people would be disoriented… There can be only one sun.1

1The story of Measure for Measure in the twenty-first century has been a comedy of substitution, in which we have watched the play’s ‘demigod authority’ (1.2.112) make way for a ‘new governor’ (154), whose ‘commission’ (1.1.13), “so to enforce or qualify the [work] / As to [his] soul seems good” (65-66) has strangely reinforced its theme, that we “shall […] see / If power change purpose, what our seemers be’ (1.3.53-4), thus proving ‘the hood does not make the monk’: “Cucullus non facit monachum” (5.1.261). For whether or not Thomas Middleton appreciated the irony when he was commissioned the original author’s ‘absence to supply’ (1.1.18), by revising Shake