Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph - 9781009611084

Name: Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph - 9781009611084
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Anne Shakespeare's EpitaphAuthor(s): Katherine West Scheil\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009611084, 978-1009611084\nSynopsis\nThe Shakespeare family occupies five gravesites on the chancel steps at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-[url] Shakespeare's grave is the only one commemorated with a brass plaque and an epitaph in original Latin poetry, eulogizing her as a beloved mother, pious woman, and 'so great a gift'. For nearly four hundred years, this epitaph has remained largely unreadable to visitors, enabling a long history of undervaluing Anne's significant maternal role in the Shakespeare [url] Shakespeare's Epitaph offers a new reading of the content and the related material conditions and interpersonal connections behind this [url] provides new evidence about the identity of the engraver and suggests several possible scenarios for how the Shakespeare family came to memorialize An.