Thursday, July 7, 2011

What Shakespeare movie was Anne Hathaway in?


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Why: In Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby:
"If someone had had a chance to break into Shakespeare's house, he should have taken it, shouldn't he? Because then we'd know more. It would have been perfectly legitimate to... to rummage around in Shakespeare's sock drawer. In the interests of history and literature."

"So according to your logic Julie Beatty is Shakespeare."

"Anne Hathaway."

"Jesus Christ." Tucker shook his head bitterly.
Wha.

Answer
: Haha omg, you guys won't believe this, but she wasn't! (Though she has played Jane Austen.) This isn't even the same Anne Hathaway! It's the one who was Shakespeare's wife. Everyone knows this but me:
Very little is known about her beyond a few references in legal documents, but her personality and relationship to Shakespeare have been the subject of much speculation by historians and creative writers.

Hathaway married Shakespeare in November 1582 while pregnant with the couple's first child, to whom she gave birth six months later. Hathaway was 26 years of age; Shakespeare was only 18.
Made for each other.
There's a whole debate about whether this was a shotgun wedding. Apparently, there was a wedding license issued to "Wm Shaxpere and Annam Whateley," and then a different one issued to "William Shagspere and Anne Hathwey" the very next day. Some people think Anne Whateley was his true lady-love - and that Hathaway's family forced him to marry their pregnant daughter, leaving him a shell of a man henceforth - but others think the name was a clerical error and that Anne Whateley never existed. Who knows? Wills and Hathaway had 3 kids, either way.

Source: Wikipedia,

The More You Know: They named one of their kids Hamnet. Hamnet. They named him after their friend Hamnet the Baker. Hamnet also had a twin sister named Judith. (And they had another sister, Susanna.)

This is Hamnet we're talking about. HAMNET!

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