Germaine Greer's most controversial book since the seminal "The Female Eunuch", this biography of Ann Hathaway is also a social history of Shakespeare's time. Little is known about the woman Shakespeare married, but, as he left her out of his will, it has often been assumed she was nothing more than an unfortunate mistake. Greer steps off the paths of orthodoxy to ask new questions and open new fields of research. Expect widespread publicity in all the media.