Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies
How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
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Eunice Wong
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Elizabeth Winkler
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An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) 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, 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.
“Lively” (The Washington Post), “fascinating” (Amanda Foreman), and “intrepid” (Stacy Schiff), Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies will forever change how you think of Shakespeare…and of how we as a society decide what’s up for debate and what’s just nonsense, just heresy.
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- 2023-08-22
Great fun
I recently became interested in the authorship question and this is a great primer. Winkler did a great job putting together an exploration of many different theories. Eunice Wong is a fantastic narrator as well, she gives the words a wonderful layer of emotion. Highly recommended!
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- Jennifer306
- 2023-06-08
Loved it - so glad I tried something new!
I’d heard about authorship theories over the years, but this book was an in-depth and intriguing dive into the topic. A much needed unbiased perspective from someone with no “skin in the game.” Highly recommend!
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- David Evans
- 2024-03-22
A great story well told
"Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies" by Elizabeth Winkler is well worth the read, not just if you are on one side or the other of the authorship debate on Shakespeare. It is an enjoyable discussion, both friendly and enlightening about and often with some of the most interesting theatre folk and scholars who have ventured forth on the "authorship question". If you love the plays of Shakespeare, whoever he was, you will love this book.
Incisively Winker goes to the heart of the period and the social context of Shakespeare's plays and brings out the important details from the mass of complexity. By a very bold approach Winkler tackles the questions of each of the possible claimants to the authorship of what we know as Shakespeare. She goes as far as interviewing those who have been not only opposing but personally antagonistic. Always Winkler shines out as a rational and reasonable voice of calm in a raucous discussion.
I would venture this is the definitive book on the authorship question. This book has all the hallmarks of a work that will have a great impact. Not only is she passionate on her own position but she gives an extremely even handed and comprehensive disposition of the available evidence. A good work on history must have an argument that it tries to promote. A great work not only has a good argument but is so open and accessible it allows the reader to choose a different position based on the evidence presented.
I think she has converted me to a Stratfordian. Not that Shakespeare wrote everything, he may have written very little. But someone must have created, out of the mass of writers and contributors, the coherent works we read today. I think Shakespeare may have been little more than a businessman who took the works of others to create a body of work that he could use on the stage. It was probably just a nice side business for a wool trader.
I have spent most of my 54 years of life reading Shakespeare and the writers of the period. I know the writers she speaks of, and I'm very convinced there is great proof in what she says. Still all of them put together do not make up one Shakespeare. Someone drew them together; something held them together. The plays were not the esthete marvels of university educated scholars, nor the popular entertainment of the day. Shakespeare was everyman, because it appears everyman (and woman), just about, was in Shakespeare.
If you can put aside the rancor and animosity, reading this book from any perspective will be valuable. Besides that, it's fun, Winkler is a good writer. I highly recommend this book.
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