William Shakespeare’s marriage to Anne Hathaway may have been happier than previously thought, according to new research.

Steggle provides "plenty of plausible evidence " but "no smoking gun," James Shapiro, a Shakespeare scholar at Columbia University, told the Post. It will likely "take some time for the smoke to clear ...

While it has long been believed that the playwright left his family in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to go work in London, a ...

Matthew Steggle, a professor of early modern English, analysed a fragment of a 17th century letter addressed to “good Mrs Shakespeare”, which appears to show the couple living together in London ...

The research serves as a counterpoint to an older narrative that imagines William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway mostly living apart in an unhappy marriage.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, author Maggie O'Farrell, whose book Hamnet is a fictionalised account of ...

Some scholars have long assumed that William Shakespeare had an unhappy marriage with his wife Anne Hathaway. But fresh ...

However, analysis by Professor Matthew Steggle on the University of Bristol of a 17th-century letter has found that the couple may have lived together in London for extended periods of time ...

Now, a long forgotten letter may turn that theory on its head, according to Matthew Steggle, a professor of English at Bristol University. The fragments of the letter, addressed to “good Mrs Sha ...

Instead, Matthew Steggle of the University of Bristol said, a letter fragment discovered in 1978 suggests the Shakespeares lived together in London during a fruitful decade in which the Bard wrote ...