The Diary of William Shakespeare, Gentleman (2016)
“Indeed, I have already written such a play, but it was not, as some have said, based upon my wife. My Anne was no shrew to tame. She remained as she had been before our marriage: dutiful, but now also happy. She sang as she podded peas with my mother sitting in the garden, her belly swelling, my mother smiling, my sister at their side. She was skilled at embroidery too, and of an evening sat beside the fire adding decoration to my father’s gloves as if she had been born to the craft.
My father ...too was well content. Anne’s dowry had paid his debts. I do not know if Anne knew how much our household owed her, but my father treated her with respect due to that and as his son’s wife.
And I? I had an obedient wife in my bed and serving at my table, and a life more comfortable by far because she was in it. Her godfathers were right: her cheeses were good, as were her hearth cakes and her roasting of a duck. This was the happiest she had ever been, and it showed.
And then the child — the small, red-faced, screaming, wrinkled scrap that has grown into the beauty of Susanna now.MoreLess
My father ...too was well content. Anne’s dowry had paid his debts. I do not know if Anne knew how much our household owed her, but my father treated her with respect due to that and as his son’s wife.
And I? I had an obedient wife in my bed and serving at my table, and a life more comfortable by far because she was in it. Her godfathers were right: her cheeses were good, as were her hearth cakes and her roasting of a duck. This was the happiest she had ever been, and it showed.
And then the child — the small, red-faced, screaming, wrinkled scrap that has grown into the beauty of Susanna now.MoreLess
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