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I loved this book because it totally changed my view of Shakespeare. In fact I can no longer read or see a Shakespeare play or read a Shakespeare biography without thinking that the plays and sonnets were NOT written by the Bard of Avon, but rather by a mysterious author or group of authors, some of whom were likely women, all of whom for various reasons did not want to make their names public. The need to purchase another's name and even biography was common for female writers up until modern times, and could have also applied to some of the other candidates in this fascinating detective story. Some could have needed to hide in exile, being spies; others needed to guard their reputation as upstanding aristocrats who didn't stoop to the lowly trade of playwright. I won't tell you their identities - you'll have to read the book yourself…
A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might really be.
The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, vexed, 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…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
I loved this book because it changed my view of Jane Austen as the first female novelist. I love Jane Austen, but never knew how much previous women authors inspired her. Like many creative geniuses, she took the inspiration to the next level, and perhaps that is why we have forgotten those who preceded her. I loved the structure of this book, written like a detective story, where the author finds references throughout Austen's works, some subtle, to the women authors and the characters they wrote, whom she admired - or didn't! From there the author, an antiquarian bookseller, tracked down long since out of print books by those authors, read the original works, and found where Jane borrowed their ideas and even sometimes their words. Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility were terms used in Jane Austen's time by others. That's not to say she plagiarized these authors, but…
From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure featuring “your favorite author's favorite authors” (Today)—the women who inspired Jane Austen—that's “a meditation on reading and writing, on honesty and self-discovery—and on what books can teach us, if we let them” (The Washington Post).
Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane Austen. She loved that Austen's books took the lives of women seriously, explored relationships with wit and confidence, and always, allowed for the possibility of a happy ending. She read and reread…
