<P> The Connie Willis short story "Winter's Tale," which combines factual information about Anne Hathaway with a fictitious Shakespeare identity theory, also characterises the nature of the relationship as loving and the bequeath of the second - best bed as romantically significant . </P> <P> Anne Hathaway appears in Neil Gaiman's comic book section "The Tempest", part of The Sandman series . She and Shakespeare share a tumultuous, yet affectionate, relationship . Gaiman's interpretation suggests that Anne deliberately became pregnant in order to force her husband to marry her, but the context implies that neither of them ultimately regret their decision . </P> <P> Through her long - running solo show Mrs Shakespeare, Will's first and last love (1989) American actress - writer Yvonne Hudson has had a long relationship with both the historical and dramatic Anne Hathaway . She depicts Anne and Will as maintaining a friendship despite the challenges inherent to their long separations and tragedies . Mining early and recent scholarship and the complete works, Hudson concurs that evidence of the couple's mutual respect is indeed evident in the plays and sonnets, along with support for the writer's infatuations and possibly adulterous relationships . Hudson also chooses the positive view of the bed bequest, sharing that "it may have been only here that I possessed William ." Mrs Shakespeare explores the realities of keeping house without a husband while applying some dramatic licence . This allows Anne to have at least a country wife's understanding of her educated spouse's work as she quotes sonnets and soliloquies to convey her feelings. The 2005 play Shakespeare's Will by Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen is similar in form to Hudson's show . It is a one - woman piece that focuses on Anne Hathaway on the day of her husband's funeral . Avril Rowland's Mrs Shakespeare (2005) depicts Anne as a multi-tasking "superwoman" who runs the home efficiently while also writing her husband's plays in a businesslike partnership with him as her promoter / performer . </P> <P> The romantic comedy film Shakespeare in Love provides an example of the negative view, depicting the marriage as a cold and loveless bond that Shakespeare must escape to find love in London . The same situation occurs in the alternate - history novel Ruled Britannia (2002), in which Shakespeare is finally granted a divorce from Hathaway to marry his new girlfriend after he helps to liberate England from Spanish dominion . A similarly loveless relationship is depicted in the film A Waste of Shame (2005). </P>

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