The Power of Love and the Love of Power (Shakespeare: Part II)

William Shakespeare knew love, and also its complications.  At the age of eighteen he married Anne Hathaway, a woman eight years his senior.  Six months after the wedding, Anne gave birth to a child, which no doubt sparked local gossip.  Later, he wrote love sonnets to a man—Was the playwright a closet homosexual?—and then composed … Continue reading The Power of Love and the Love of Power (Shakespeare: Part II)