Becoming The Muse

I took a literature class in high school, but my love affair with books started a long time before then. However English lit, that’s when I seriously got acquainted with William Shakespeare. For us taught modern English, Shakespeare seemed to write in an entirely different language all together. The student study books we used came with translation resources; notes and prara-phrases of each scene in a proper English.

William Shakespeare’s works are not just something you pick and read they something you study and learn to appreciate.

I am sure I was not alone in thinking studying literature was a bit of a scam, see in-order to understand the context of a book you would also look at the author, their life and times; then interpret what you thought the author meant versus their experiences. I have always had the spirit of an author and I would imagine someone combing through my life and experiences to figure out what I meant to write when I was simply writing and not for any reason I chose a particular metaphor than I thought it would sound interesting no more.

In studying the Bard of Avon I came to learn how he married a lady older than him, some school of thought thinking he was forced into it, others saying it showed how persuasive he was because traditionally (more so in those times) men married women younger than them.

Regardless of who pursued who,  he was married to Anne Hathaway. Some say she was his inspiration and muse and their relationship was reflected in some of his works, other theories think she did more than simply read Shakespeare’s plays she may have even written all or some of them, Anne Hathaway’s history is little known, mostly peaced from official  records and legal documents and in his will Will left Anne his second best bed. Another sentiment with polarised interpretations

Fast forward to four hundred years later

Anne Hathaway the multiple award winning star of The Princess Diaries, The Devil Wears Prada, Dark Knight, Oceans 8 and many others, she is sexy, has really expressive eyes, ageless; stop me from celebrity crushing but I fell in love with her in The Princess Diaries, maybe it was some of the Shakespeare inside  me, a bit of that bard’s soul.

A year ago the internet went crazy over a tweet that went viral about how her husband Adam Shulman looks like Shakespeare…

anne hathaway is being talked about for her beauty but what about the fact that her husband looks very similar to william shakespeare and william shakespeare's wife's name was literally ANNE HATHAWAY…… pic.twitter.com/UR0x4bnL8N

— 🍑 (@PEACHYBLACKG0RL) July 1, 2018

Adam looks as close as one can get to the sketches and depictions of what Shakespeare is supposed to look like, because there are no actual photographs from then..

Fun Fact: our Anne Hathaway was born on 12 November 1982 almost exactly 400 years to the day of William Shakespeare’s marriage to his Anne Hathaway 13 November 1582. (yes, her parents named her after Shakespeare’s wife)

Anne Hathaway recently made the headlines after posting on her Instagram “its not for a movie” announcing that she was expecting a second child and solidarity to those facing fertility challenges

Congratulations to the happy couple.

But is her husband Shakespeare reincarnate?

Are they time-travellers?

Maybe they are imortals Anne does not seem to age

Life is littered with the strangest of coincidences

~B

Also according to the internet: There’s a Japanese legend that says your present face is the face of the one you loved most in your past life.

I doubt the veracity of this legend but its still beautiful

Will hath a way