Katherine Scheil

Professor

Episode 119: Imagining Shakespeare's Wife
Episode 121: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway

The space left by lack of evidence has resulted in a lot of speculation and creativity about what sort of wife and woman Anne Hathaway really was. Prof. Scheil helps to unpick the fact from the fiction and explain the historiography of Anne.

Katherine Scheil is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of several books about Shakespeare, including The Taste of the Town: Shakespearean Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theatre; Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama (with Randall Martin); She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America; Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway; Shakespeare & Biography (with Graham Holderness); and Shakespeare & Stratford. She is finishing a book on the history of women and Stratford-upon-Avon, and a book about Shakespeare and biofiction, called Father Shakespeare. She was one of the co-editors of the recent Annethology: Poems Re-Presenting Anne Shakespeare. Her work on the epitaph of Anne Shakespeare in Holy Trinity Church will be coming out later in 2024, with Cambridge University Press.