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| Author | Jodi Picoult |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Shakespeare authorship question |
| Genre | Historical Fiction |
| Set in | England, United States |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
| Publication place | USA |
| ISBN | 9780593497210 |
By Any Other Name is a historical fiction novel by Jodi Picoult.
In the year 1581, Emilia Bassano, who like nearly every other young women of her time, has no voice of her own, not that's allowed. But as the mistress of Lord Chamberlain, she can see all theater in England, can read all plays that may be put on. She finds secret ways to bring her plays to the stage. By creating great dramatic masterpieces isn't free: She pays William Shakespeare for the use of his name, and nearly writes out her own. [1]
Shifting to 21st-century Manhatten, Melina Green is a young playwright whose efforts at success was crushed by a cruel review, and knows that she is a descendant of Emilia Bassano. Of William Shakespeare, she wonders: how could the son of a glover’s from Stratford, one lacking an education at Oxbridge know about court manners? How could he know about Denmark's Elsinore Castle in Hamlet . How could he know about a particular Italian fresco written of in Othello ? Shakespeare didn't teach his own daughters how to sign their names; how did he create such proto-feminist heroines as Beatrice, Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, Portia, Rosalind, and Viola? Melina observes, "Every gap in Shakespeare’s life or knowledge that has to be explained away by scholars, she somehow fills." [2]