Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare) It is widely attributed to Charles Dibdin (1748–1814) and may have been written for the Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare Festival of 1769: Anne is depicted in fiction during the 19th century, when Shakespeare starts to become a figure in wider national and popular culture. Emma Severn's novel "Anne Hathaway, or, Shakespeare in Love" (1845) portrays an idealised romance and happy marriage in an idyllic rural Stratford. She also appears in William Black's 1884 novel "Judith Shakespeare" about her daughter, portrayed as a conventional dutiful wife and concerned parent with a wayward daughter. By the early 20th century a more negative image of
William Shakespeare (tenor) of singing at the Royal Academy of Music. He died in London in 1931. In addition to singing and composition, William Shakespeare wrote and published several books. These include "The Art of Singing", a three-part series published from 1898 to 1899, "Singing for Schools and Colleges", published in 1907, "Plain Words on Singing" in 1924, and "The Speaker's Art" in 1931. William Shakespeare's style of vocal pedagogy mirrored closely that of his Italian mentor Lamperti, as evidenced from his direct reference to "la lotte vocal", a concept taken directly from the nineteenth-century Italianate school of vocal development. William Shakespeare (tenor)