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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>As you read William Shakespeare\u2019s Romeo and Juliet, or any of his other love stories, there are these moments of rich pining for love and unforgettable romantic moments and expressions.<\/p>\n

That is why Romeo and Juliet is often called a tragic love story and is based on real characters from Verona. And often, you are drawn to wonder how Shakespeare himself fared in love relationships.<\/p>\n

It is just unavoidable. Romeo and Juliet are forbidden to love one another due to an ancient grudge between their families. Romeo has an unrequited infatuation for a girl named Rosaline, a niece of Lord Capulet\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Persuaded by Benvolio, Romeo attends the ball at the Capulet house in the hope of meeting Rosaline. But it is not Rosaline who sweeps him off his feet \u2013 it is the fair Juliet!<\/p>\n

After the ball, in Act 2 Scene 2, Romeo sneaks into the Capulet courtyard and overhears Juliet on her balcony vowing her love to him in spite of her family\u2019s hatred for his family.<\/p>\n

Not aware that Romeo is actually in the vicinity, Juliet pours out her wish that Romeo was not in the wrong family and forbidden. She is infatuated by him.<\/p>\n

It is one rare moment in literature when a woman pines for a man: \u201cO Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?\u201d In that line and the others that follow after it, Juliet is not asking where Romeo is.<\/p>\n

She is actually asking why he has to be Romeo, a Montague. Juliet has already discovered Romeo\u2019s identity by talking to the nurse earlier in the play.<\/p>\n

She tries to come to terms with the fact that the man she loves is part of her family\u2019s most hated rival clan. On Romeo\u2019s part, hiding in the Capulet orchard after the feast, he sees Juliet leaning out of a high window.<\/p>\n

Though it is late at night, Juliet\u2019s surpassing beauty makes Romeo imagine that she is the sun, transforming the darkness into daylight. Then you start to wonder how Shakespeare\u2019s own love life and marriage were like! That kind of curiosity can actually be overwhelming and you start to look for the details.
\n. It is said that William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in November 1582 and they remained married until Shakespeare\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

At the time of their marriage Shakespeare was 18, while Anne was 26\u2014and pregnant with their first child. This means that Shakespeare fell for a lady older than him! He must have been richly in love.
\n. The average age of marriage was 26 years of age, so it is said that Anne would have been an eligible young lady of her time.<\/p>\n

William, on the other hand, was still a minor in the eyes of the law! This means that it required permission from Anne\u2019s father to marry Anne. Shakespeare\u2019s early marriage also meant that he wouldn\u2019t legally be able to complete an apprenticeship.<\/p>\n

To avoid any scandal surrounding Anne\u2019s pregnancy, it is said that Shakespeare sped up proceedings by applying to the Bishop\u2019s Court in Worcester. But people go on to ask how much Shakespeare loved Anne, seeing how he described love himself!<\/p>\n

There is no available specific answer to that. William Shakespeare signed his will on 25 March 1616. In the will, he leaves his second-best bed to Anne; the document reads, \u2018Item I gyve unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture\u2019 (furniture is used to refer to the curtains and bedcover which formed part of the complete bed).<\/p>\n

Some have read this as a slight against Anne; but the second-best bed would have been their marriage bed, since the best bed was typically reserved for guests.<\/p>\n

Under medieval common law in England a widow was entitled to one third of her late husband\u2019s estate for her life (or widowhood) even though it was not specifically mentioned in the will.<\/p>\n

In practice however, most wives were mentioned, usually in terms of affection and trust, and were frequently made executrix of the will. The bequest of the second best bed is not in itself unusual, and wills were not places for the expression of personal feelings.<\/p>\n

The best bed, or indeed best of any type of item was usually regarded as an heirloom to be passed to the major heir, his daughter Susanna. When you move over to the great singer, Miriam Makeba, you have another amazing love life.<\/p>\n

According to Ewens Graeme in an obituary of November 2008, Miriam Zenzi Makeba, singer and activist, who was born in March 4 1932 and died on November 10, 2008, was married a record five times!<\/p>\n

It is said that in 1949, Makeba married James Kubay, a policeman in training, with whom she had her only child, Bongi Makeba, in 1950. Makeba was about 17 when Bongi was born.<\/p>\n

Her husband, who is on record of not having a harmonious relationship with her was said to have left her shortly afterwards, after a two-year marriage.<\/p>\n

In 1959, Makeba settled in the US. A second marriage is reported to have occurred in 1959 and was also short-lived. In 1960 she was denied re-entry into South Africa, and she lived in exile for three decades thereafter.<\/p>\n

Her second marriage was short-lived because in 1964, Hugh Masekela, the South African trumpeter, became Makeba\u2019s third husband. They went to perform in Algeria and at the OAU conference in Accra, Ghana.<\/p>\n

Although the couple divorced two years later, they maintained a close professional relationship. In 1967, while in Guinea, she met the Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael who became her next husband the following year.<\/p>\n

Carmichael is said to have changed his name to Kwame Toure\u0301 and she returned with him to his own place of exile in Guinea, the West African Marxist state whose leader, Sekou Toure\u0301, gave sanctuary to enemies of the capitalist west.<\/p>\n

After that fourth marriage ended in divorce in 1978, it is recorded that she turned down a proposal by the president, but two years later married an airline executive and moved to Brussels.<\/p>\n

In one interview Makeba addresses directly the issue of her constant marriages. The explanation appears linked to exile and her hard schedule as an international artist.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Leigh Behrens of Chicago Tribune of March 20, 1988, she says: \u201cSinging is the only way I know how to take care of myself. And I can\u2019t sing in one place.<\/p>\n

I have to go around the world, which I have. And sometimes things go wrong that way. . . . It\u2019s sad. But each time you marry, you say, maybe this is it.<\/p>\n

And when it doesn\u2019t happen, I am the kind of person who feels I\u2019m not going to make anybody else miserable, and I don\u2019t want them to make me miserable.<\/p>\n

So if it doesn\u2019t work, we part, and we are good friends. And there\u2019s no fighting. I do have somebody, but he\u2019s in Guinea. In Africa they say that when you are elderly, you have to be married to have respect.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m married. But I\u2019m not with my husband. I\u2019m never there. \u201d Mariama Ba\u2019s love life is also worth noting. The Senegalese writer\u2019s iconic novel called So Long a Letter is the most vicious attack on polygamy that I have ever read.<\/p>\n

It is written in the voice of a depressed Muslim woman, Ramatoulaye, who is a school teacher in Senegal. It is a series of letters addressed to her friend called Aissatou, who lives in America.<\/p>\n

Assatou has long rebelled and left. Ramatoulaye gradually and objectively reflects on her marriage to Modou, from beginning to end. She tries but she cannot fully understand what leads a man to lose interest in his wife of 25 years and marry his daughter\u2019s best friend, a young school girl called Binetou.<\/p>\n

Ramatoulaye cannot understand why men even think about taking a second wife. \u201cWas it madness, weakness, irresistible love? What inner confusion led Madou Fall to marry Binetou?\u201d Ramatoulaye pines.<\/p>\n

She goes on: \u201cAnd to think that I loved this man passionately, to think that I gave him 30 years of my life, to think that twelve times over, I carried his child.
\n. In loving someone else, he burned his past, both morally and materially. . . \u201d The more she tries, the more Ramatoulaye fails to understand why men go for second wives. Ba\u2019s family was a powerful one.<\/p>\n

Her father was a government official, and she enjoyed the best education available to an African woman of the day, attending and excelling in French-language schools. In 1947 she became a teacher.<\/p>\n

She married the Senegalese politician Obeye Diop and had nine children by him; the rigors of raising such a large family took their toll on her health, and she was forced to give up her teaching post.<\/p>\n

Later divorced from Diop, she worked as a secretary and as a school inspector. Many of Ba\u2019s experiences found their way into her works. Her So Long a Letter is a psychological quest on the sins of African men, the changes they go through as they move from one point to the other in life.<\/p>\n

At some point, Ramatoulaye realises that it is very possible, and even normal that her husband\u2019s love and passion for her had naturally died: \u201cI no longer interested Modou, and I knew it.<\/p>\n

I was abandoned: a fluttering leaf that no hand dares to pick up, as my grandmother would have said. I faced up the situation bravely. . . \u201d But the more she registers this, the more she comes to terms with who she is.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe\u2019s revered writer, Dambudzo Marechera\u2019s life comes into the open when her friend turned lover, Flora Veit Wild, confesses of their affair in an essay in Wasafiri issue 69 March 2012.<\/p>\n

This has become Marechera\u2019s most widely documented love affair. Initially it was a sensational story because when they met, Flora was already married. All the same, she moved on with Marechera.<\/p>\n

Flora had first met Marechera in a fellow writer\u2019s, Charles Mungoshi\u2019s office in one of the publishing houses in Harare in the 1980\u2019s when Marechera was riding on the success of his prize winning book, House of Hunger.<\/p>\n

Flora writes about their first meeting, \u201c\u2018Hey, have a seat,\u2019 he said, pulling a chair for me at Mungoshi\u2019s desk. His open face was looking at me expectantly, and Charles \u2013 not a natural speaker \u2013 gladly left his guest to his eloquent colleague.<\/p>\n

So that is him, I remember thinking, so accessible, charming and boyish, clad in denims and a faded light blue T-shirt \u2014 incredibly young. \u201d In that narrative, Marechera appears to fall all over Flora, a sure sign that he is very attracted to her, \u201cHe was thirty-one years old, I was thirty-six.<\/p>\n

I was wearing sandals, a pink blouse and wide, softly flowing trousers with a striking flower pattern. Looking me up and down, he said: \u2018Oh, my lawd, your garments cannot be from here.<\/p>\n

You would rather expect them in a Bloomsbury setting than in prissy old Salisbury. \u2019 Soon they start dating. Soon they are gradually becoming intimate: \u201cWe sit in the dark by the UZ swimming pool.<\/p>\n

We tumble about in the grass. It feels playful, joyful, frivolous. Yet back in the car, he starts pressurising me. I want to drive home. He urges me to stay. He pulls my hand into his lap and, angrily, provocatively, he says: \u2018You see what you are doing to me, you can\u2019t leave me like THIS. \u2019<\/p>\n

Flora confesses that she also fell for Marechera and that she was the kind of man she was attracted to: \u201cDid I have any idea what I was getting into? I had always had a longing for the wondrous, the fantastic, the outlandish.<\/p>\n

Dambudzo appealed to the clownish, melancholic, poetic part of me, which was menacingly dark and colourfully bright at the same time. I had never suppressed it, lived it out in pantomime or in romance, but had always been pragmatic enough to know that, for \u2018real life\u2019, I had to make rational choices.<\/p>\n

Dambudzo more than anyone before embodied this \u2018other\u2019 side in me, he led me through many closed doors, he fostered my infatuation with the mad side of life, the \u2018Coin of Moonshine.
\nThe few cases above are amazing in that; the men and women who sing or write about people in relationships also have relationships of their own like all of us, the mere mortals!<\/p>\n

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