Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph
Series: Elements in Shakespeare and Text;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 23 April 2026
- ISBN 9781009611084
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages120 pages
- Size 178x127x6 mm
- Weight 135 g
- Language English 698
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Short description:
Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph offers a reading of this text, and of the material conditions and interpersonal connections that produced it.
MoreLong description:
The Shakespeare family occupies five gravesites on the chancel steps at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. Anne 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 family. Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph offers a new reading of the content and the related material conditions and interpersonal connections behind this text. It provides new evidence about the identity of the engraver and suggests several possible scenarios for how the Shakespeare family came to memorialize Anne as a cherished maternal figure. This Element reinscribes the original significance of Anne's epitaph, and reclaims it as an important Shakespearean text that offers traces of a lost documentary record.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface: loss and the life of Anne Shakespeare; Introduction: Anne Shakespeare's epitaph; 1. In the shadow of the bard: the dating and location of Anne Shakespeare's epitaph; 2. Materializing memory: the production of Anne Shakespeare's epitaph; 3. Memorializing the maternal: creating the content of Anne Shakespeare's epitaph; 4. Beyond the words: the engraver of Anne Shakespeare's epitaph; 5. The epitaph's geography: possible London and Stratford-upon-Avon networks; Conclusion: expanding the world of Anne Shakespeare; Appendix: an edition of Anne Shakespeare's epitaph.
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