Shakespeare's Will

Ann Hathaway, the woman who married William Shakespeare, has rarely been given a voice of her own. In this play by Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen, she finally speaks. The story looks at parts of her life that history has left largely undocumented, seen through her own perspective and feelings.

The play follows her across the long years she shared with the poet, a relationship that was at times close and at other times distant. It presents her as a woman who endured hardship and stayed steady in the face of public criticism, not one defined by her husband's fame.