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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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