Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

by Elizabeth Winkler

Book Overview

An "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (Andr 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 198217126X
• ISBN13: 9781982171261
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"