If there is a love story to be told about Shakespeare, it should start and end with the total devotion and life-long love Anne held for William. Such was her devotion that she spent all of her dramatic genius in ensuring that William's name would be immortalised as the author of her plays, poems and Sonnets.(supplied by publisher)
There are two stories to be told about "Shake-speares Sonnets". The first, and traditional story, is that of William Shakespeare as author, and the sonnets detail his homoerotic affair with a young man and his heterosexual affair with a dark lady. The second story, which is a much more intriguing story, details the love affair of the real author, Anne Shakespeare, with the man she was totally devoted to for most of her life, her husband, William Shakespeare. This story is one of Anne's exploration, through her core beliefs of love, nature, free will and humanism her relationship with William from its beginnings as she woos a reluctant William to marry and produce children, through her emotional roller-coaster relationship with William from around 1582 through to the Sonnets publication in 1609. What underpins her core beliefs though, is her feminine voice: her core beliefs cannot be separated from her lived experience as a woman and thus all of her plays and poems must be seen from her feminist perspective.(amazon website, viewed 25/7/2023)
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