{"product_id":"shakespeares-wife-germaine-greer-9780747593003-germaine-greer-9780747593003","title":"Shakespeare's Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003e______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Excellent ... a marvellous imagining of the life of Shakespeare's wife and a devastating exposure of the misogyny of the male biographers who have disparaged her' - Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Greer dares to think the unthinkable ... this is a bold and imaginative book' - Independent\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e'A spirited, voluble, scholarly book which gives some depth and some dignity to the marginalised Mrs Shakespeare' - Guardian \n\u003cbr\u003e______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAS READ ON BBC RADIO 4'S BOOK OF THE WEEK\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eLittle is known of the wife of England's greatest playwright. In play after play Shakespeare presents the finding of a worthy wife as a triumphant denouement, yet scholars persist in believing that his own wife was resented and even hated by him. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere Germaine Greer strives to re-embed the story of their marriage in its social context and presents new hypotheses about the life of the farmer's daughter who married our greatest poet. This is a daring, insightful book that asks new questions, opens new fields of investigation and research, and rights the wrongs done to Ann Shakespeare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A refreshing corrective to the usual portrait ... Greer is impressive when it comes to detailing their Stratford life and times ... It's robust, lively stuff' - The Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Germaine Greer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43175523549427,"sku":"9780747593003","price":26.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9780747593003.jpg?v=1662075123","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/shakespeares-wife-germaine-greer-9780747593003-germaine-greer-9780747593003","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}