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Book Review of Mrs. Shakespeare : The Complete Works

Mrs. Shakespeare : The Complete Works
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This novel purports to be an account by Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife, who never read his plays or sonnets, never even saw a play, about the only week she spent with him in London - and incidentally about his personality, his family and his children who she raised essentially by herself in Stratford. Nye is an expert on the Bard.

Actually a lovely, fast-reading, if somewhat bawdy, work. Not too explicit, but if you don't care for sex in your novels, this isn't for you.