Overview
The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English literature. Scholars admit that the Bardās biography is a āblack hole,ā yet to publicly question the identity of the god of English literature is unacceptable, even (some say) āimmoral.ā
In Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, journalist and literary critic Elizabeth Winkler sets out to probe the origins of this literary taboo. Whisking you from London to Stratford-Upon-Avon to Washington, DC, she pulls back the curtain to show how the forces of nationalism and empire, religion and mythmaking, gender and class have shaped our admiration for Shakespeare across the centuries. As she considers the writers and thinkersāfrom Walt Whitman to Sigmund Freud to Supreme Court justicesāwho have grappled with the riddle of the playsā origins, she explores who may perhaps have been hiding behind his name. A forgotten woman? A disgraced aristocrat? A government spy? Hovering over the mystery are Shakespeareās plays themselves, with their love for mistaken identities, disguises, and things never quite being what they seem.
As she interviews scholars and skeptics, Winklerās interest turns to the larger problem of historical truthāand of how human imperfections (bias, blindness, subjectivity) shape our construction of the past. History is a story, and the story we find may depend on the story weāre looking for.
āLivelyā (The Washington Post), āfascinatingā (Amanda Foreman), and āintrepidā (Stacy Schiff), Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies will forever change how you think of Shakespeareā¦and of how we as a society decide whatās up for debate and whatās just nonsense, just heresy.
This book title, Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies (How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature) - 9781982171278, ISBN: 9781982171278, by Elizabeth Winkler, published by Simon & Schuster (April 23, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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