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In Karen Harper's novel Mistress Shakespeare (2008) Anne Whateley is the central character. She is once more portrayed as Shakespeare's true love. She narrates the story of her life as the dusky-skinned daughter of a Stratford businessman and an Italian acrobat. She and Shakespeare are married in a "handfast" ceremony which is known only to ...
Elinor Dashwood and Edward Ferrars have an annual income of just £350 between them: the interest on their respective assets and the living (£200) from Delaford's vicarage, which is a little more than James Austen and Anne Mathiew have when they marry in 1792, [note 21] [144] and they are reasonable enough to admit that this is insufficient to ...
Mistress Nell Quickly is a fictional character who appears in several plays by William Shakespeare. She is an inn-keeper, who runs the Boar's Head Tavern, at which Sir John Falstaff and his disreputable cronies congregate. The character appears in four plays: Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 January 2025. The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 [a] in Stratford ...
Dorothy "Doll" Tearsheet is a fictional character who appears in Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 2.She is a prostitute who frequents the Boar's Head Inn in Eastcheap.Doll is close friends with Mistress Quickly, the proprietress of the tavern, who procures her services for Falstaff.
He had chosen to marry one, Anne Whateley, but when this became known he was immediately forced by Hathaway's family to marry their pregnant relative. Harris believed that "Shakespeare's loathing for his wife was measureless" on account of this forced marriage , and that this was the spur to his decision to leave Stratford and pursue a career ...
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Therefore, 18 came to be considered the earliest reasonable age for motherhood and 20 and 30 the ideal ages for women and men, respectively, to marry. Shakespeare might also have reduced Juliet's age from 16 to 13 to demonstrate the dangers of marriage at too young an age; that Shakespeare himself married Anne Hathaway when he was 18 might hold ...