Anne Hathaway (poem)
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| Author | Carol Ann Duffy |
|---|---|
| Publication date | 1999 |
"Anne Hathaway" is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy about Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare.
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".
Bibliography
- Carol Ann Duffy. The World's Wife. Picador (London), 1999. ISBN 033037222x [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK]
