In 2007 Greer published ''Shakespeare's Wife'' <ref>Bloomsbury Publishing London)</ref>, a study of Anne Hathaway that seeks to persuade us that it was the Bard's wife who paid for the publication of the [[First Folio]] thus doing an invaluable service to the world. Though the theory is a kind one, and Greer did a lot of archival research into the lives and activities of women in 16th-century Stratford, she never really brings any convincing arguments for this conclusion and does not offer any new discoveries. | In 2007 Greer published ''Shakespeare's Wife'' <ref>Bloomsbury Publishing London)</ref>, a study of Anne Hathaway that seeks to persuade us that it was the Bard's wife who paid for the publication of the [[First Folio]] thus doing an invaluable service to the world. Though the theory is a kind one, and Greer did a lot of archival research into the lives and activities of women in 16th-century Stratford, she never really brings any convincing arguments for this conclusion and does not offer any new discoveries. |