Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare) leave Stratford and pursue a career in the theatre. However, according to Stanley Wells, writing in the "Oxford Companion to Shakespeare", most modern scholars take the view that the name Whateley was "almost certainly the result of clerical error". Germaine Greer argues that the age difference between Shakespeare and Hathaway is not evidence that he was forced to marry her, but that he was the one who pursued her. Women such as the orphaned Hathaway often stayed at home to care for younger siblings and married in their late twenties. As a husband Shakespeare offered few prospects; his family had
Anne Hathaway Hathaway's most acclaimed and highest-grossing films, according to the online portal Box Office Mojo and the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, include "The Princess Diaries" (2001), "Brokeback Mountain" (2005), "The Devil Wears Prada" (2006), "Get Smart" (2008), "Rachel Getting Married" (2008), "Valentine's Day" (2010), "Alice in Wonderland" (2010), "Love and Other Drugs" (2010), "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012), "Les Misérables" (2012), "Interstellar" (2014), "The Intern" (2015), "Colossal" (2016), and "Ocean's 8" (2018). Hathaway has been nominated for two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a British Academy Film Award. She has won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a