CRITICAL MASS

The Merry Wife of William

Compiled by PETER MONAGHAN

"I just don't think Shakespeare would have married someone who wasn't smart and didn't have a good sense of humor," Germaine Greer speculates in her contentious biography of Ann Hathaway, who wed William Shakespeare in 1582, when he was 18 and she 26. That is one of Greer's many objections to the tradition among Shakespeare...

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