In his will, Shakespeare's only mention of his wife, Anne Hathaway, was to leave her his second-best bed. While this sounds like a bit of a post-mortem slander, it really isn't.  In the Elizabethian household, the second-best bed would have been Shakespeare's own bed, which he most likely shared with Anne.  Additionally, under the laws of inheritance at the time, she would have received their home and one-third of his estate before it was dispersed.  In today's money, Shakepeare's estate far exceeded one million pounds