A previously “ignored” letter of the seventeenth century has questioned the consensus of centenarians that his wife’s relationship was unhappy and that he abandoned her in Stratford-Avon-Avon
An age assumption that William Shakespeare left his wife has been challenged by a letter of more than 17 years, suggesting that the couple could have lived together in London.
For about 200 years, academics have believed that Shakespeare Lefte left his wife, Anne Hathaway, in Stratford-Crursue to follow a writing career in London, but a new investigation by the academic of the University of Bristol Matthew Story.
A fragment of a letter addressed to the “Good Mrs. Shakespeare” seems to show the couple living together in London between 1600 and 1610, contradicting the vision of an unhappy marriage. The letter, discovered in a binding book in the Library of the Hereford Cathedral, is the first evidence that Anne lives with her husband in London.
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Professor Steggy said: “When I found it for the first time, I was a bit perplexed, wondering why (the letter) was not better known and why there was not much more debate about it.”
He added: “It’s just that most Shakespeare scholars are ignored or leg.”
The letter details a financial dispute between Shakespeare and an orphan child, and the author asked Mrs. Shakespeare to pay the child a sum of money allegedly for her husband. Mrs. Shakespeare seems to support her spouse, telling the author to find funds elsewhere, reports Birmingham Live.
“To the romantic poets, people interested in Shakespeare in the early nineteenth century, devised this narrative that really attracted the theme of a Shakespeare trapped in marrying this type of country andkel,” said Professor Stegggy.
“Then he leaves and makes his fortune in London and forgets it and has many interesting adventures in London before returning and retiring to Stratford.
“Everything that gives him in his will is the ‘second best bed’!”
However, Professor Steggy suggests that a new research indicates that “maybe Anne Hathaway is a more interesting figure than bone thinking.”
Althegh discovered in 1978, the letter remained hidden, sewn in the binding of a book, with one side of the hidden text until more recently.
Professor Steggy’s research involved in historical records in search of an apprentice who fits the child’s profile, any of those who idelify a probable candidate.
Historians, after centuries of file game, have discovered evidence of only four married couples called ‘Shakespeare’ in London the relevant period.
Using the details about the apprentice, Professor Steggle was able to highlight a couple who could have lived in Trinity Lane, who, at that time, was an area quite accent to the south of the Cathedral of San Pablo.
Professor Steggle discusses the center of attention of his research, commented: “It is pleasant, the people that people are doing this really great job in English studies and you do all this research and, in general, I would not say that anyone cares, but normally it is.” “
