Painting by the Swiss artist Angelika Kaufman “Miranda and Ferdinand.” The size of the picture is 35 x 45 cm, canvas, oil. Another name for the picture “A scene with Miranda and Ferdinand based on the play” Shakespeare’s Storm “. In November 1582, at the age of 18, Shakespeare married the eldest of his 8 years, Anne Geswe, the daughter of a fairly well-to-do one-man from the district of Shotern lying 10 minutes from Stratford.
Apparently, the marriage was forced. The wedding ceremony was performed without the participation of Shakespeare’s parents and bypassing some of the usual formalities on the part of the bride’s relatives, and six months later, in May 1583, Shakespeare’s daughter Suzanne was born. It is established, however, that in England at that time it was not considered particularly shameful for the groom to enter into the rights of the husband immediately after the betrothal; you can find evidence for this: Claudio in the play “Measure for Measure” is justified by the fact that he “took possession of his Julia’s bed, then after the betrothal.”
But it is precisely from those emergency circumstances under which Shakespeare’s wedding took place that there was no “honest betrothal”. When Shakespeare wrote the play “The Storm” and was the father of two daughters, of whom he had just married and another was about to give out with an obviously subjective passion, Prospero turned to his Miranda daughter’s fiancé with the following reminder: “But until the ceremony will not be complete by the priest, you will unbind the virgin belt to her, then never from heaven the blessing of your union with love will not come down… Oh, no, discord, contempt with a pungent gaze and hatred infertile will then be poured on you on the wedding bed of unsuitable grasses so caustic and prickly that o ba you jump off it. ” In these words, not without a certain share of the ground, want to see evidence,
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