Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies
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- Elizabeth Winkler
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies
- ISBN #9781982171278
- Elizabeth Winkler
- Paperback
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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.
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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 Bard's biography is a black hole, yet to publicly question the identity of the god of English literature is unacceptable, even (some say) immoral. 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 thinkers-from Walt Whitman to Sigmund Freud to Supreme Court justices-who have grappled with the riddle of the plays' 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 Shakespeare's plays themselves, with their love for mistaken identities, disguises, and things never quite being what they seem. As she interviews scholars and skeptics, Winkler's interest turns to the larger problem of historical truth-and 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 we're looking for.
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Publication Date: 03/07/2024
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Illustrations: 1-c photos t-o
- Country of Origin: United States
- Pages: 432
- Dimensions (mm): 213x140x25mm
- Weight: 320g
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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 Bard's biography is a black hole, yet to publicly question the identity of the god of English literature is unacceptable, even (some say) immoral. 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 thinkers-from Walt Whitman to Sigmund Freud to Supreme Court justices-who have grappled with the riddle of the plays' 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 Shakespeare's plays themselves, with their love for mistaken identities, disguises, and things never quite being what they seem. As she interviews scholars and skeptics, Winkler's interest turns to the larger problem of historical truth-and 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 we're looking for.
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Publication Date: 03/07/2024
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Illustrations: 1-c photos t-o
- Country of Origin: United States
- Pages: 432
- Dimensions (mm): 213x140x25mm
- Weight: 320g
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