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By Any Other Name - A Novel (Paperback)
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By Any Other Name - A Novel (Paperback)
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Loot Price R425
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What if the greatest writer of all time isn’t who we think he is?
What if he isn’t even a he?
Step back four hundred years and discover the female author who hid
behind the mask of the man we know as William Shakespeare . . .
In 1581, Emilia Bassano is allowed no voice of her own. But as the Lord
Chamberlain’s mistress she has access to the theatre, and finds a way
to bring her work to the stage secretly. And yet, creating some of the
world’s greatest dramatic masterpieces comes at a great cost: by paying
a man for the use of his name, she will write her own out of history.
His name? William Shakespeare . . .
In modern day New York, playwright Melina Green is determined to see
one of her shows make the stage. After years of struggle to be
recognised she has finally written again, inspired by the life of her
Elizabethan ancestor — Emilia Bassano, England’s first published female
poet. Although the challenges are different for her, four hundred years
later, a woman’s voice is still not heard like a man’s. But what
lengths will she be willing to go to in order to achieve her dreams?
Moving between Elizabethan England and modern day Manhattan, By Any
Other Name is a beautifully written, compelling novel that explores the
theme of identity and the ways in which two women, centuries apart—one
of whom might just be the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—are both
forced to hide behind another name to make their voices heard.
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