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Elizabeth Winkler
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Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Virginia Woolf
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
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"Everyone starts out a Stratfordian, but it doesn’t take too much digging to undo the house of cards. This is such a marvellous book, so provocative and well researched. Like the author, I also loved James Shapiro’s books analysing Shakespeare from di"
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This is not my book. Can you please remove? I'm the author of Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies (my only book). Thank you!
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I'm the author of Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies. However, my profile also lists Understanding Language, which is not my book. Can you ple
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“If history gets distorted by tradition, it also gets distorted by assumptions that documented history is the whole history: that recorded truth is the complete truth.”
― Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
― Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
“The suspicion has arisen that the portrait’s deformities were, as the anonymous tailor suggested, intentional—that it is a joke portrait depicting a fool as the author. Two left arms signal left-handed writing, which in ancient tradition is associated with deception. “Writing with the left hand is to make some secret circumvention, to cunny-catch, deceive, or defame,” wrote Artemidorus in the second century AD. (His work was translated into English in 1606, and widely read and quoted.) Are the two left arms meant to suggest that the figure is a deceiver—a fake?”
― Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
― Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
“a world where chocolate is entirely rare — or entirely mediocre — is a dystopia the likes of which we can scarcely conceive ["An Emotional History Of Chocolate," The Millions, January 5, 2015].”
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