Mrs. Shakespeare

It is April 1594. Will Shakespeare, budding poet and playwright, invites his estranged wife to come to London to celebrate his thirtieth birthday. Seven years after his death, Anne Hathaway reminisces about her now-famous husband, recalling in particular that unforgettable week and what happened to her in a certain bed in his lodgings above a fishmonger's shop-an enormous four-poster that the playwright called their "private playhouse." By turns thoughtful and bawdy, Mrs. Shakespeare's tale offers insight into Will's secret lives, including the mystery of the second-best bed that he bequeathed her, as well as the question that has intrigued scholars and readers for centuries: to hom and for whom were the "Dark Sonnets" written?Nye, Robert is the author of 'Mrs. Shakespeare' with ISBN 9780142000045 and ISBN 0142000043.