![]() ![]() Intertwined with this enticing tale are snippets of lines from Will’s plays, sonnets, and poems. A relationship with Will’s first patron, Harry Wriothesley, the earl of Southampton, is artfully portrayed with passionate abandon, one that will consume Will until he is devastated by an unexpected betrayal. Indeed it is suggested that such wanton excess and lustful pleasures actually fuel his writings. For in this author’s hands, the great playwright strays with both sexes and only long afterward is racked by guilt. ![]() So follows a pattern of Will traveling back and forth to London, while Anne stays home struggling to feed and care for a daughter and then twins.Īs Will’s skills are honed with time and acknowledged, he struggles with his passions. When Will fortuitously receives an apprenticeship in London, with the financial backing of his father, he knows not that Anne is pregnant. Will, a penniless glover’s son initially, seeks a connection to Anne Hathaway because she is the only one infatuated by his poems and person. ![]() ![]() “For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,/That then I scorn to change my state with kings.” These words might apply to different phases of “Will Shakspere’s” life in 16th-century England but in Meredith Whitford’s depiction, they are the words of a repentant husband come home to his one true love. ![]()
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