Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare) is imagined by James Joyce's character Stephen Dedalus, who makes a number of references to Hathaway. In "Ulysses", he speculates that the gift of the infamous "second-best bed" was a punishment for her adultery, and earlier in the same novel, Dedalus analyses Shakespeare's marriage with a pun: "He chose badly? He was chosen, it seems to me. If others have their will Ann hath a way." Anne also appears in Hubert Osborne's "The Shakespeare Play" (c.1911) and its sequel "The Good Men Do" (1917), which dramatises a meeting between the newly widowed Anne and her supposed old rival for William's
Anne Hathaway convince Hathaway to star in his film, was officially selected and had its North American premiere in April 2016 at the Nashville Film Festival. Hathaway reprised the role of the White Queen in "Alice Through the Looking Glass", the 2016 sequel to "Alice in Wonderland". That March, it was reported that she would reprise her role for "The Princess Diaries 3"; the project was cancelled after the death of Gary Marshall, who was set to direct the film. Hathaway is one of several actors featured on Barbra Streisand's 2016 album "". Along with Daisy Ridley, Hathaway and Streisand performed the