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词条 Anne Hathaway (poem)
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  2. Notes and references

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  3. Bibliography

{{Infobox poem
|name = Anne Hathaway
|author = Carol Ann Duffy
|publication_date = {{start date|1999}}
}}

"Anne Hathaway" is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy about Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare.

Overview

This poem, a sonnet, appears in The World's Wife, published in 1999, a collection of poems. The poem is based on the famous passage from Shakespeare's will regarding his "second-best bed". Duffy chooses the view that this would be their marriage bed, and so a memento of their love, not a slight. Anne remembers their lovemaking as a form of "romance and drama", unlike the "prose" written on the best bed used by guests, "I hold him in the casket of my widow's head/ as he held me upon that next best bed".

In The Second Best Bed and the Legacy of Anne Hathaway, Katherine Scheil describes it as "… [centering] on an intimate relationship between the Shakespeares and the second best bed: 'The bed we loved in was a spinning world / of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas / where he would dive for pearls' while 'In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on, / dribbling their prose'".{{sfn|Scheil|2009}} She sees Duffy's poem as belonging to a category of recent takes on Anne Hathaway that "… have used the 'second- best bed' as an inspiration for imagining some sort of connection (emotional, sexual, or both) between the Shakespeares."{{sfn|Scheil|2009}}

Notes and references

Notes

References

{{refbegin|30em}}
  • {{cite journal

|title = The Second Best Bed and the Legacy of Anne Hathaway
|last = Scheil
|first = Katherine
|year = 2009
|jstor = 41556328
|journal = Critical Survey
|volume = 21
|issue = 3, Shakespeare and 'the personal story'
|pages = 59–71
|issn = 0011-1570
|eissn = 17522293
|via = JSTOR
|subscription = y
|ref = harv
}}{{refend}}

Bibliography

  • {{cite book| author = Carol Ann Duffy| title = The World's Wife Poems| year = 2000| publisher = Pan Macmillan Adult| isbn = 978-0-330-37222-0 }}
{{AQA Anthology}}

3 : 1999 poems|Poetry by Carol Ann Duffy|Cultural depictions of William Shakespeare

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